The Moon Society Congratulates the Artemis II Crew
The Moon Society extends its congratulations to all members of NASA’s Artemis II mission, including American astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, and ... Read more
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The Moon Society Congratulates SpaceX on Today’s Launch of Starship SN8
Pasadena, MD – The Moon Society, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit space advocacy organization, is pleased to offer our congratulations to Elon Musk and the team ... Read more
Powering Civilization After Fossil Fuels
The Moon Society member John Barber generously offered his paper on Space Solar Power (aka Solar Power Satellites) as a viable post-fossil fuel option.
Moon Society Congratulates India’s Chandrayaan-1 Team for Discovery of Intact Lava Tube Section on the Moon
February 25, 2011 – Today, ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, has released a paper detailing the discovery of a 1.72 kilometer long (5,733 ft.) ... Read more
Moon Society Heralds Dawn of Human-Robonaut Space Age
Moon Society Heralds Dawn of Human-Robonaut Space Age From Peter Kokh March 17, 2011 – Today, St. Patrick’s Day, the ISS crew unpacked the first ... Read more
The Moon may have 100 X more water than expected
The Moon may have 100 X more water than expected http://blogs.forbes.com/oshadavidson/2011/05/27/large-amounts-of-water-found-on-the-moon/ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/BA011JLELO.DTL http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=186809 With commentary by Peter Kokh and David Heck May 26, 2011 – ... Read more
Earthly Helium-3 Crisis!
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23helium.html?_r=1&hpw Helium-3 Crisis! Demand now exceeds supply by a factor of ten. The price has jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the ... Read more
LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
Link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html “We are ecstatic,” said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. “Multiple lines ... Read more
Lunar Elevator can be built today using commercial Zylon fiber
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator Lunar Elevator can be built today using commercial Zylon fiber. Lunar Elevator gives cheap access to lunar materials, feedstock for space industries. We ... Read more
Did Somebody Say Moon Quakes?
First there were earthquakes. Then there were sunquakes. Now it seems as if Earth’s little sister may have caught “the shakes” which could threaten future ... Read more
Growing Plants on the Moon
A cool article Thursday April 17th titled Plants thrive on Moon rock diet. In short the scientists took crushed anorthosite a type of rock similar ... Read more
Moon Society congratulates China on successful launch of Chang’e-1 probe towards the Moon
October 24, 2007: XICHANG – The launch of China’s first lunar probe Chang’e-1, on a Long March CZ-3A booster, was successful, a Chinese official announced ... Read more
The view from Sun-Earth L5
Link: http://www.moonsociety.org/2003-pcsn/18-L5sunview.html The View from Sun-Earth L5 NASA’s new twin STEREO solar observatories launched October 25th, 2006, if successfully deployed in separate orbits ahead and ... Read more
The Moon as a Puzzle
Link: http://strabo.moonsociety.org/images/changing/rubicpuzzle.gif The Moon Seems to be a barren, useless “rubble pile” with which it is difficult to imagine that we could do anything useful. ... Read more
The View From L5
Link: http://www.moonsociety.org/2003-pcsn/16-L5view.html Why NASA should put a RelaySat & Dedicated Moonscope at L5 Planetary Scientists and others have prioritized sampling missions to the South Pole ... Read more