Moon Society Nashville Outpost at Hidden Lake Trails Junior Rangers 6/26

On Thursday 6/26, I, Chuck Schlemm, Nashville Outpost of the Moon Society, did an astronomy presentation for 11 Junior Rangers and 4 leaders at Hidden Lake Trails from 8:30-9:30 am.  I used posters and planet models to discuss the Earth and Moon, solar system, stars, constellations, star clusters, novas, galaxies and more.  Their interest was […]

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Moon Society Nashville Outpost at Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory’s Telescope Night 6/20

Hi all, I represented the Moon Society Nashville Outpost by presenting my “Apollo to Artemis” exhibit at Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory’s Telescope Night on Friday 6/20 from 9:30-11:30 using spacecraft models of the Apollo Saturn V, LM, STS Space Shuttle, Soyuz and Artemis’s SLS, Orion, and SpaceX and Blue Origin’s Human Landing Systems. Commercial space models […]

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Moon Society Nashville Outpost at 6/14

Hi all, As the Nashville Outpost of the Moon Society, I exhibited at Nashville’s Adventure Science Center Saturday 6/14 from 9-4:00 as part of their “Space Month”. I answered many questions directly for ~150 of their ~1500 guests about the “Apollo to Artemis and Beyond” models.  Many also tried the planetary gravity milk jug’s demonstration.  […]

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Moon Society Nashville Outpost at Dickson Library 6/6

Hello all, I presented my “Apollo to Artemis and Beyond” exhibit Friday 6/6 from 5:30-7:00 pm at the Dickson County Public Library to ~40 guests. I told about the missions of Apollo, Space Shuttle, International Space Station, future space stations, SpaceX Falcon, Starships and Artemis 3 Moon lander, Blue Origin’s New Shepard, New Glenn, and […]

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HABITAT MARTE Space Analog Station

NEWS! I confirm that I will be participating in the upcoming Lunar Space Analog Virtual Mission: https://lnkd.in/dZtxUDMS HABITAT MARTE Space Analog Station Will be happening from July 12th to 21st 2025 the lunar mission 211 organized by space analog station @HabitatMarte / Lunar Habitat / @aerospacecomplex.    This July 20025 mission celebrates the 56th birthday of the Moon landing.   […]

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The World Is Not Enough: Space Policies to Ignite Space Mining

By: Peter Garretson and Abigail Koch From the Space Policy Review “This paper recommends that Congress encourageand support a commercial demonstration of asteroid capture and resource harvesting as a critical element of U.S. national security and economic development strategy.” https://www.afpc.org/uploads/documents/FINAL_FINAL_The_World_Is_Not_Enough-_Space_Policies_to_Ignite_Space_Mining.pdf […]

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