From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sat Sep 1 15:36:56 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:36:56 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 then permanent manned base in 2007 - 2032 Message-ID: <46D9BF58.5060103@gmail.com> Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 then permanent manned base in 2007 - 2032 Interesting to see how this story is told by different News Media. - LRK - Bob in 'Texas alerted me to the link and others are talking about the same or similar in some posts which I have copied links below. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070831/75959612.html [Warning - Has a pop up in Russian and English for Beeline Roaming which Mozilla Firefox failed to stop. - LRK -] MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032, the head of the space agency said Friday. Anatoly Perminov said that in accordance with Russia's space program through 2040, a manned flight to Mars will be carried out after 2035. He said that toward the end of this year, Russia will have 103 satellites in orbit, up from the current 95. There are plans for a new space center in the country, but a site has not yet been selected, he said. Russia currently launches all manned flights from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. Perminov said previously that construction of a new launch facility would only begin after a new type of spacecraft was built. A major source of revenue for the agency in recent years has been space tourist flights from Baikonur to the International Space Station (ISS), with tickets currently priced at around $30 million. Russia has put five wealthy foreign tourists into space since 2001. Perminov said the first Russian space tourist, who will fly to the ISS in 2009, is a businessman and politician. "He asked me not to disclose his name yet. I can only say that he is a serious young Russian businessman and politician. He is currently undergoing medical tests." The agency chief said that in 2016-25, after the ISS is put out of operation, Russia plans to deploy a platform in a low-earth orbit to assemble spacecraft. The United States has said the station should be scrapped in 2015, while Russia has proposed using the Russian segment until 2020. Perminov said: "The ISS will be transformed into a laboratory complex where research will be conducted." Snip ------------------------------------------------------------- Bob sent me this link earlier about China's plans. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070810101658.qtxtup2l&show_article=1 China plans to survey 'every inch' of moon Aug 10 06:17 AM US/Eastern China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of the planet back to Earth state media reported Friday. "We would like to survey every inch of the moon's surface," Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of the China's, moon exploration project, was quoted as saying on the website of Chinese News Service. Snip Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium ------------------------------------------------------------- And John in SE Georgia sent this bit. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- FYI: Lunar lander X Prize entrants...enjoy! http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070827/sc_space/nineteamssignuptocompeteforlunarlanderprize;_ylt=AmPIZxyTbViCuuRaV2QLuDQE1vAI hoping for clear early morning skies in deepest, darkest SE GA J ------------------------------------------------------------- The SpaceNews link to above if link breaks. http://www.space.com/spacenews/070827_lunar_xprize.html I hope we see many news items about heading towards space. Maybe a race is it will be. GO! GO! GO! The field is wide open and much to learn. A home away from home to be considered. Who will be the Blacksmith? Need a new wagon wheel made? Who will supply the picks, hammers, gold panning pans? Need a new spacesuit? Who will make the wagons? Or was that a Boeing Space Truck? Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== http://www.space.com/news/070831_russia_spacetourist.html *Russia Prepares for 2009 Space Tourist Flight, Future Spacecraft * *By Simon Saradzhyan* Space News Correspondent posted: 31 August 2007 2:41 p.m. ET MOSCOW -- Russia's Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration. "If we create a new manned spaceship, which our program until the year 2015 provides for, then we will need a new rocket and that rocket will require a new launch pad," Perminov told reporters in a press conference here. We have not decided whether to build that pad at Baikonur or in Russia." While Perminov didn't name the new spaceship, the Russian space agency has envisioned the Rocket Space Corporation Energia's Klipper spacecraft for use as a replacement for the Soyuz-TMA capsules and interplanetary voyages. Snip ============================================================== http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2364434.ece From The Times September 1, 2007 Russia aims for the Moon, then Mars * MOSCOW* Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025, 57 years after Nasa?s Apollo mission in 1968 - and wants to build a permanent base there. Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said that an ?inhabited station? could be built between 2027 and 2032. Russia intended to complete construction of its section of the International Space Station by 2015 so that the ISS ?becomes a fully fledged space research centre,? he added. Mr Perminov pointed out that Russia?s space programme receives less than 10 per cent of the funding the US receives, yet retains great ambitions. An expedition to Mars remained a long-term ambition for Roskosmos, which hoped to send manned flights there after 2035, he said. However, many difficulties linked to the planet?s extreme physical conditions remain unresolved. ?Current spacecraft do not provide the protection needed for the crew to survive and return to Earth,? he said. (/AFP/) Snip ============================================================== http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2007/08/russians-to-build-moon-base.html Spaceports Spaceports will enable thousands of people from around the world to go to outer space. The Spaceports Blog endeavors to provide information linking those with interest in the pursuit of space to spaceport development and the people and vehicles that fly from them. Russia's federal space agency Roskosmos has indicated that the nation will seek to place cosmonauts on the moon by 2025 and build a *permanent lunar base* between 2027 and 2032 where cosmonauts could strike out on a long-planned mission to Mars as early as 2035, according to a report from the British */Telegraph /*. Snip ============================================================== http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889592/posts *Russia Enters 'Space Race' To Build Moon Base* *The Telegraph (UK) ^ * | 8-31-2007 | Graeme Baker Posted on *08/31/2007 3:09:55 PM PDT* by *blam* *Russia enters 'space race' to build moon base* By Graeme Baker Last Updated: 5:57pm BST 31/08/2007 Russia has revived another Cold War rivalry by entering a new ?space race? with America to build a permanent base on the Moon. Anatoly Perminov, the head of the space agency Roskosmos, said Russia would organise a manned lunar mission by 2025 and would be ready to build an ?inhabited station? between 2027 and 2032. >From there, cosmonauts could strike out on a long-planned mission to Mars as early as 2035. ?According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025,? said Mr Perminov, adding that Mars remained a long-term ambition for Russia. Mr Perminov also said that Roskmosmos intended to complete its section of the International Space Station by 2015 so that the ISS ?becomes a fully-fledged space research centre?, while ?major modernisation? of its Soyuz spacecraft would also be completed. President George W. Bush in 2004 outlined plans for America, which landed the first men on the moon in 1968, to return by 2020 and use the mission as a stepping stone to Mars. Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sat Sep 1 16:13:51 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:13:51 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 then permanent manned base in 2027 - 2032 Message-ID: <46D9C7FF.6090007@gmail.com> Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 then permanent manned base in 2027 - 2032 [correction 2027-2032 - LRK] Interesting to see how this story is told by different News Media. - LRK - Bob in 'Texas alerted me to the link and others are talking about the same or similar in some posts which I have copied links below. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070831/75959612.html [Warning - Has a pop up in Russian and English for Beeline Roaming which Mozilla Firefox failed to stop. - LRK -] MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032, the head of the space agency said Friday. Anatoly Perminov said that in accordance with Russia's space program through 2040, a manned flight to Mars will be carried out after 2035. He said that toward the end of this year, Russia will have 103 satellites in orbit, up from the current 95. There are plans for a new space center in the country, but a site has not yet been selected, he said. Russia currently launches all manned flights from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. Perminov said previously that construction of a new launch facility would only begin after a new type of spacecraft was built. A major source of revenue for the agency in recent years has been space tourist flights from Baikonur to the International Space Station (ISS), with tickets currently priced at around $30 million. Russia has put five wealthy foreign tourists into space since 2001. Perminov said the first Russian space tourist, who will fly to the ISS in 2009, is a businessman and politician. "He asked me not to disclose his name yet. I can only say that he is a serious young Russian businessman and politician. He is currently undergoing medical tests." The agency chief said that in 2016-25, after the ISS is put out of operation, Russia plans to deploy a platform in a low-earth orbit to assemble spacecraft. The United States has said the station should be scrapped in 2015, while Russia has proposed using the Russian segment until 2020. Perminov said: "The ISS will be transformed into a laboratory complex where research will be conducted." Snip ------------------------------------------------------------- Bob sent me this link earlier about China's plans. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070810101658.qtxtup2l&show_article=1 China plans to survey 'every inch' of moon Aug 10 06:17 AM US/Eastern China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of the planet back to Earth state media reported Friday. "We would like to survey every inch of the moon's surface," Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of the China's, moon exploration project, was quoted as saying on the website of Chinese News Service. Snip Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium ------------------------------------------------------------- And John in SE Georgia sent this bit. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------- FYI: Lunar lander X Prize entrants...enjoy! http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070827/sc_space/nineteamssignuptocompeteforlunarlanderprize;_ylt=AmPIZxyTbViCuuRaV2QLuDQE1vAI hoping for clear early morning skies in deepest, darkest SE GA J ------------------------------------------------------------- The SpaceNews link to above if link breaks. http://www.space.com/spacenews/070827_lunar_xprize.html I hope we see many news items about heading towards space. Maybe a race is it will be. GO! GO! GO! The field is wide open and much to learn. A home away from home to be considered. Who will be the Blacksmith? Need a new wagon wheel made? Who will supply the picks, hammers, gold panning pans? Need a new spacesuit? Who will make the wagons? Or was that a Boeing Space Truck? Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== http://www.space.com/news/070831_russia_spacetourist.html *Russia Prepares for 2009 Space Tourist Flight, Future Spacecraft * *By Simon Saradzhyan* Space News Correspondent posted: 31 August 2007 2:41 p.m. ET MOSCOW -- Russia's Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration. "If we create a new manned spaceship, which our program until the year 2015 provides for, then we will need a new rocket and that rocket will require a new launch pad," Perminov told reporters in a press conference here. We have not decided whether to build that pad at Baikonur or in Russia." While Perminov didn't name the new spaceship, the Russian space agency has envisioned the Rocket Space Corporation Energia's Klipper spacecraft for use as a replacement for the Soyuz-TMA capsules and interplanetary voyages. Snip ============================================================== http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2364434.ece From The Times September 1, 2007 Russia aims for the Moon, then Mars * MOSCOW* Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025, 57 years after Nasa?s Apollo mission in 1968 - and wants to build a permanent base there. Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said that an ?inhabited station? could be built between 2027 and 2032. Russia intended to complete construction of its section of the International Space Station by 2015 so that the ISS ?becomes a fully fledged space research centre,? he added. Mr Perminov pointed out that Russia?s space programme receives less than 10 per cent of the funding the US receives, yet retains great ambitions. An expedition to Mars remained a long-term ambition for Roskosmos, which hoped to send manned flights there after 2035, he said. However, many difficulties linked to the planet?s extreme physical conditions remain unresolved. ?Current spacecraft do not provide the protection needed for the crew to survive and return to Earth,? he said. (/AFP/) Snip ============================================================== http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2007/08/russians-to-build-moon-base.html Spaceports Spaceports will enable thousands of people from around the world to go to outer space. The Spaceports Blog endeavors to provide information linking those with interest in the pursuit of space to spaceport development and the people and vehicles that fly from them. Russia's federal space agency Roskosmos has indicated that the nation will seek to place cosmonauts on the moon by 2025 and build a *permanent lunar base* between 2027 and 2032 where cosmonauts could strike out on a long-planned mission to Mars as early as 2035, according to a report from the British */Telegraph /*. Snip ============================================================== http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889592/posts *Russia Enters 'Space Race' To Build Moon Base* *The Telegraph (UK) ^ * | 8-31-2007 | Graeme Baker Posted on *08/31/2007 3:09:55 PM PDT* by *blam* *Russia enters 'space race' to build moon base* By Graeme Baker Last Updated: 5:57pm BST 31/08/2007 Russia has revived another Cold War rivalry by entering a new ?space race? with America to build a permanent base on the Moon. Anatoly Perminov, the head of the space agency Roskosmos, said Russia would organise a manned lunar mission by 2025 and would be ready to build an ?inhabited station? between 2027 and 2032. > From there, cosmonauts could strike out on a long-planned mission to Mars as early as 2035. ?According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025,? said Mr Perminov, adding that Mars remained a long-term ambition for Russia. Mr Perminov also said that Roskmosmos intended to complete its section of the International Space Station by 2015 so that the ISS ?becomes a fully-fledged space research centre?, while ?major modernisation? of its Soyuz spacecraft would also be completed. President George W. Bush in 2004 outlined plans for America, which landed the first men on the moon in 1968, to return by 2020 and use the mission as a stepping stone to Mars. Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Wed Sep 5 02:37:11 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:37:11 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Lunar Base Construction Message-ID: <46DE4E97.9070602@gmail.com> Lunar Base Construction Some links below would indicate that there is interest in building a Lunar Base and that it will provide much work for those involved in actually designing a base and figuring out how to go about constructing one. I included the references from Haym Benaroya's, 2002. Engineering, Design and Construction of Lunar Bases paper with PDF link if you care to down load and read the 13 page document. Just looking at the topics of the many references will give you an idea of what needs to be considered even if you don't read the paper. Now if we just continue to fund going to the Moon maybe some new graduate student will have a project worth working on. Look like it could make for some interesting design work that would require some original thinking. [FOR WHICHEVER COUNTRY DECIDES TO TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE.] First there was SPUTNIK and thoughts of going to the Moon. The Apollo missions proved it could be done. Now to go back to stay. Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Zak, Anatoly. "News & History of Astronautics in the former USSR." August 5, 2007. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/index.html (August 4, 2007). *Russia delivers supplies to the station* /Published: 2007 Aug. 2; updated Aug. 5/ A Russian cargo ship docked to the International Space Station , ISS, Sunday, delivering around 2.5 tons of supplies to the orbital outpost, as two vehicles flew over Central Europe. The Soyuz-U rocket , carrying the Progress M-61 cargo ship, blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome 's Site 1 on Aug. 2, 2007 at 21:33:48 Moscow Time. The launch followed a standard trajectory , delivering a 7,270-kilogram spacecraft into a 268 by 191-kilometer orbit with the inclination 51.64 degrees toward the Equator, according to mission control in Korolev, Russia. After a three-day flight, Progress M-61 docked to the station's Pirs Docking Compartment , on Aug. 5, 2007, at 22:40 Moscow Time. The succesful arrival of the Russian Progress cleared the way for the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on Aug. 8, 2007. To make a room for the new arrival, the Progress M-59 cargo ship undocked from the ISS on Aug. 1, 2007 at 18:07:05 Moscow Time. Upon a command from the Russian mission control, the vehicle fired its braking engine at 22:42 Moscow Time. It then reentered Earth atmosphere and its debris impacted a remote region of the Pacific Ocean some 5,000 kilometers east of Wellington, New Zealand, on the same day around 23:27 Moscow Time. The launch of Progress M-61 was delayed from May 12, 2007, and then advanced from Sept. 3 to Aug. 16, 2006. In the wake of computer problems onboard the ISS in mid-June 2007, officials considered advancing the launch date as far as July 23, 2007. ------------------------------------------ AND ON THE PAGE AN AD FOR THE WORLD'S FIRST ORBITAL COIN - SPUTNIK - 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1957 - 2007, - LRK - 50th Anniversary of Sputnik 1957 ? 2007 Silver Proof ?Orbital? Coin * World?s First ?Orbital? Coin * Proof Quality 99.9% Pure Silver * Revolutionary Reverse * Issued as Legal Tender * Presentation Packaging * Numbered Certificate of Authenticity * Sputnik orbits around the Earth Product Availability Date: 17 September 2007 .... *50^th Anniversary of Sputnik* The coin celebrates the 50^th Anniversary of Sputnik, which was launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. The first man-made satellite to orbit the world, Sputnik?s success triggered the Space Race and efforts to realise the ultimate dream of landing men on the Moon. .... Snip ============================================================== Zak, Anatoly. "SPACECRAFT Manned: Lunar Program." 2002. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/lunar_base.html (August 4, 2007) *In the 1960s, the Moon Race between the United States and the Soviet Union made many scientists in both countries believe that human colonization of the Moon was at hand. Lunar bases became a frequent subject for the popular press and sci-fi novels; however, the space community also started looking at the problem seriously. * *Advocates of lunar settlements believed that a permanent outpost on the Moon would allow extensive exploration of the Earth's natural satellite for future mining of its resources, for the use of its surface as a platform for astronomy research and as a "proving ground" for further planetary exploration. * *Early proposals* In Russia, Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy, a visionary of space exploration, suggested use of the Moon as a source of raw materials for the human quest into space. (136 ) *Project Horizon * In June 1959, Wernher Von Braun and his group working at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., issued the first part of the study of a "Lunar Military Outpost" for the US Army, called Project Horizon. Saturn-I and Saturn-II rockets, whose development started about a year earlier, were to resupply the base. The study estimated that total 245 tons of construction materials, hardware and supplies had to be shipped to the lunar surface. (138 ) *Korolev studies * In the 1960s, Sergei Korolev , the father of the Soviet space program, was one of the first leaders in the country's space industry, to raise the possibility of building a long-term outpost on the surface of the Moon. In 1960, in the wake of the first Soviet successes in sending unmanned probes to the Moon , Korolev published an article in Pravda, the official publication of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the article, bylined "Professor K. Sergeev," Korolev outlined in general terms his plans for space exploration, including lunar expeditions: "The opportunity for direct exploration of the Moon causes a particular interest, first with the landing of automated scientific probes... and later by ways of sending researchers and constructing a habitable scientific station on the Moon." (137 ) In 1962, Korolev further discussed the idea of the lunar base in the "Notes on Heavy Interplanetary Spacecraft and Heavy orbital Station," which were not been published until two decades later. In the "Notes" Korolev discussed developing infrastructure to support interplanetary travel, including a base to store consumables for interplanetary spacecraft. The topic came up during a meeting of the Chief Designers Council, an informal governing body in the Soviet space industry, when it considered future tasks for the N1 moon rocket. The consideration of a lunar base than reached the government level, which reacted with a decree on November 17, 1967, giving the green light to a "Galactika" (Galaxy) project. The plan assigned the industry to evaluate a broad range of issues associated with human exploration of the Moon, Venus and Mars. *KBOM studies* Ironically, it wasn't Sergei Korolev's team, who started the first detailed studies of lunar outposts. It could be explained, perhaps, by the fact that in the 1960s Korolev's organization was overloaded with the immediate task of sending a man to the Moon. Instead, the KBOM design bureau, the developer of launch complexes for Soviet rocketry and led by Vladimir Barmin, pioneered the in-depth studies of lunar outposts. Even before the November 1967 decree came out, KBOM design bureau established Department 29 led by A. P. Chemodurov. This group had the responsibility of evaluating potential scientific, economic and military goals which could be achieved with the lunar base. (112 ) Department No. 29 at KBOM started its activities by establishing contacts with a broad range of academic and research institutions throughout the USSR, specialized in such disciplines as biology, medicine, astronomy, architecture, nuclear technology and communications. A partial list of the institutions, which cooperated with KBOM on the study of the lunar base includes: * The Crimean and Abastumansk observatories of the Academy of Sciences USSR * The Institute of Space Research, IKI, of the Academy of Sciences USSR * The Geology and Chemistry Institute, GEOKhI, of the Academy of Sciences USSR * The Physics Institute, of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences USSR * The Kiev Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture * The Electronics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbek SSR * The Research Institute of Electrical Sources * The Research Institute of Thermal Processes * The Institute of Medico-Biological Sciences * The Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, NIIYaF, of the Moscow State University On March 22, 1968, the Military Industrial Commission, VPK, issued Decree No. 62, authorizing the so-called "Tema: Columb" (Columbus study) within the Galaktika project. The document allowed KBOM to involve Design Department No. 15 and Theoretical Calculations Department No. 9 into the study of a prospective lunar base. Combined, these groups evaluated different configurations of the lunar settlement, which would be able to provide working and habitation space for the crew and also to deploy equipment, sources of energy, astronomical observatory and oxygen-producing systems. *Energy* Snip ============================================================== Benaroya, Haym. 2002. Engineering, Design and Construction of Lunar Bases. American Society of Civil Engineers. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2002)15:2(33). (PDF version of document downloaded September 4, 2007). Abstract: How do we begin to expand our civilization to the Moon? What are the technical issues that infrastructural engineers, in particular, must address? This paper has the goal of introducing this fascinating area of structural mechanics, design, and construction. Published work of the past several decades about lunar bases is summarized. Additional emphasis is placed on issues related to regolith mechanics and robotic construction. Although many hundreds of papers have been written on these subjects, and only a few tens of these have been referred to here, it is believed that a representative view has been created. This summary includes environmental issues, a classification of structural types being considered for the Moon, and some possible usage of in situ resources for lunar construction. An appendix provides, in tabular form, an overview of structural types and their lunar applications and technology drivers. Snip A post-Apollo evaluation of the need for a lunar base has been made (Lowman 1985) with the following reasons given for such a base: ? Advancing lunar science and astronomy; ? Stimulus to space technology and test bed for technologies required to place humans on Mars and beyond; ? Utilization of lunar resources; ? Establishment of U.S. presence; ? Stimulation of interest of young Americans in science and engineering; and ? Beginning of long-range program to ensure survival of species. The potential for an astronomical observatory on the Moon is very great, and it could be serviced periodically in a reasonable fashion from a lunar base. Snip Environment The problem of designing a structure to build on the lunar surface is a difficult one, discussed here in a necessarily cursory way. Many issues are not discussed, but will need to be tackled eventually. Some important topics not discussed here, but necessary in a detailed study, include the following: ? Relationships between severe lunar temperature cycles and structural and material fatigue, a problem for exposed structures; ? Structural sensitivity to temperature differentials between different sections of the same component; ? Very-low-temperature effects and the possibility of brittle fractures; ? 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No one knows yet, but many have been designed. In the 1950's and 1960's, many designs were put forth by scientists and engineers who hoped that by the next century a lunar base would be fully operational. In 1992, the FLO design, the First Lunar Outpost reference, mission was developed (and rejected) by NASA. Igloos, railroads, buses, ecospheres, and domes, have all been proposed. Inflatable structures, underground structures, structures at the South Pole, and space ports at lunar libration points have all been designed. Hotels, laboratories, observatories, sports arenas, as well as mining and manufacturing plants are all very real possibilities. What would a lunar base that you designed look like? What types of power will be used on the moon? Solar? Nuclear? Fission reactors? Fusion reactors? Lasar beamed electricity? What kinds of fuel will be developed for rockets making the journey? Aluminum? Oxygen? Hydrogen? Solar sails? Snip ============================================================== Wade, Mark "Chinese Lunar Base." 2007. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/chirbase.htm (September 4, 2007) /Class/: Manned. /Type/: Lunar Base. /Destination/: Moon. /Nation/: China. Beginning in 2000, Chinese scientists began discussing preliminary work on a Chinese manned lunar base. Although not funded, it remains a long-term objective of the Chinese space program for the second quarter of the 21st Century. Beyond the initial Project 921 programs for development of a manned earth orbit capability, Chinese scientists began talking during the course of 2000 of more ambitious plans for a lunar base. At Expo 2000 at Hanover the centre piece of the Chinese pavilion was a display of two Chinese astronauts planting the flag of the People's Republic on the lunar surface. On October 4, 2000 Associated Press reported that Zhuang Fenggan, vice chairman of the China Association of Sciences, declared that one day the Chinese would create a permanent lunar base with the intent of mining the lunar soil for Helium-3 (to fuel nuclear fusion plants on Earth). On October 13, 2000, Xinhua News Agency reported a more definite timetable. These seemed to be the dreams of academics rather than a definite funded program, but at least indicated the expected course of development during the 21st ('Chinese') Century: * Chinese astronauts would begin landings on the moon in 2005. An initial lunar station would be built up with pressurized modules, electrical generators, and roving vehicles. * The station would be completed by 2010, allowing stays of several weeks for extended science experiments. * Beginning in 2015, construction of a small permanent Moon base would begin. The objective would be for a self-sufficient lunar base to be in operation by 2020. This would be a bridgehead for construction of a network of solar power generating plants. The power would be transmitted back to Earth via microwave to meet Chinese power needs without adding to earth greenhouse gases. The base would also process the lunar regolith for metals and gases needed to support the base. The natural high vacuum would be used for research and production of new materials for export to Earth. There was no funding for lunar projects in the ten-year space plan approved in 2001. By July 2001 a Chinese aerospace magazine indicated that Chinese scientists had drafted a much more modest four-phase long term plan. * Phase 1, by 2005: Lunar flyby or orbiting satellite missions, perhaps using the DFH-3 bus. * Phase 2, by 2010: unmanned soft-landing missions. Phase 3, by 2020: Robotic exploration using surface rovers. Phase 4, by 2030: Lunar sample return missions. Only after 2030 would manned flights and construction of a lunar base begin. Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Tue Sep 11 15:44:46 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:44:46 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Once upon a time, as stories often begin, there were missions to the Moon. Message-ID: <46E6F02E.6080306@gmail.com> Once upon a time, as stories often begin, there were missions to the Moon. Looking for an ending to this story. - LRK - Sometimes I read about going back to the Moon and I think I am listening to a fairy tale, just something to entertain me for a short time but not something that will really happen. Frank Sietzen writes on The Space Review: ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.thespacereview.com/article/953/1 How to save your Vision by Frank Sietzen, Jr. Monday, September 10, 2007 In William Shakespeare?s /Henry V/ there is a telling scene that is instructive to all space geeks of our modern age. In it, two sorcerers gather around a bubbling caldron. One is a newbie upstart named Owen Glendower. The other a world-weary experienced pro named Hotspur. ?I can call spirits from the vasty deep!? Glendower exults. The crafty old pro knows such a skill has limits. ?Why so can I, so can any man,? he wearily replies to his young friend. ?But will they come when you do call for them?? Snip ----------------------------------------------------------------- "But will they come when you do call for them?" A good question, don't you think? "We can go to the Moon," so they say, but will they go? So many plans over the years that never get funded or the funding removed after you have started down the path. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced that the planned launch to the Moon has been delayed, but only for weather. They are hoping to launch September 14 (Fri,) 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) [See clip below or go to http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070911_h2a-f13_e.html ] Wish them well and hope we see great things from their mission to the Moon. Would like to see the fairy tales turn into real life happenings. Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== How to save your Vision --- The Vision for Space Exploration has been mired in debates and suffered from lukewarm support in the last couple of years, raising questions about its long-term viability. Frank Sietzen explains what NASA needs to do to restore interest in and momentum for its exploration plans. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/953/1 Snip ============================================================== Post today from JAXA MAIL SERVICE says another delay but only for weather. - LRK - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** JAXA MAIL SERVICE *** Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Launch Postponement of the KAGUYA (SELENE) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 September 11, 2007 (JST) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency would like to announce that we have decided to postpone the launch of the Lunar Orbit Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13) as adverse weather conditions are expected during the scheduled countdown operations starting from one day prior to the launch day. The new launch date will be September 14 (Fri,) 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) The launch time is scheduled for 10:31:01 a.m. (JST.) We will re-examine the weather and other conditions tomorrow for the launch on the 14th. The launch was previously scheduled for September 13 (Thu,) 2007 (JST.) This page URL: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070911_h2a-f13_e.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Publisher : Public Affairs Department Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building, 1-6-5, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8260 Japan TEL:+81-3-6266-6400 JAXA WEB SITE : http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html About This Mail Service : To change registered e-mail address, or to cancel this service, please access to http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/mail/index_e.html Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Fri Sep 14 01:18:34 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:18:34 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.13 lifted off at 10:31:01 a.m. JST on Sep. 14, 2007 from the Tanegashima Space Center. Message-ID: <46EA19AA.40900@gmail.com> The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.13 lifted off at 10:31:01 a.m. JST on Sep. 14, 2007 from the Tanegashima Space Center. --------------------------------------------------------- http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/countdown/index.html 2007-09-14 11:16 KAGUYA (SELENE) separation The separation of KAGUYA (SELENE) was confirmed. This is the end of the Countdown Report. Snip --------------------------------------------------------- Japan has a spacecraft on its way to the Moon and Google announces a $30 million Lunar X PRIZE, send your own robotic mission to the Moon. Should be interesting times, pass it on, talk it up, dream on. Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Larry, I thought you would be interested in this. Google Sponsors Lunar X PRIZE to Create a Space Race for a New Generation http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070913/0301400.html Best wishes, David Snip ============================================================== http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1334455520070914?pageNumber=1&sp=true REUTERS Google sponsors moon landing prize Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:37pm EDT By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc. will sponsor a $30 million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the $10 million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space. Like the Ansari X Prize, which was claimed in 2004 by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen for a pair of flights by SpaceShipOne, the Google Lunar X Prize is open to private industry and non-government entities worldwide, organizers said before an official announcement on Thursday. First prize is $20 million for the group that can land a lunar rover -- an unmanned robotic probe -- on the moon, take it on a 500 meter (1,640 ft) trek and broadcast video back to Earth by December 31, 2012. The prize falls to $15 million if the landing takes place by December 31, 2014. Snip ============================================================== http://www.mercurynews.com/google/ci_6883548 Google sponsors race to the moon By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Article Launched: 09/13/2007 10:57:19 AM PDT Google announced today it is sponsoring a $30 million robotic race to the moon, organized by the X PRIZE Foundation, a Santa Monica non-profit famous for issuing multimillion-dollar scientific challenges. A $20 million grand prize will go to the first team that lands a privately funded spacecraft on the moon and carries out certain tasks. Google is also offering a second prize of $5 million and bonus prizes of $5 million for teams meet additional challenges, such as finding lunar ice. Peter Diamandis, chief executive of the X PRIZE Foundation, said in a statement that the goal of the competition is to stimulate the development of low-cost methods for robotic space exploration. "The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems that we face on earth - energy independence and climate change," Diamandis said. "I'm happy to see it happening, and I hope somebody wins it, I really do," said Steven W. Squyres, an astronomy professor at Cornell University and the principal investigator for science payload for NASA's rover mission to Mars. Snip ============================================================== http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_e.html Launch Postponement of the KAGUYA (SELENE)/H-IIA F13 [September 11, 2007 Updated] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency would like to announce that we have decided to postpone the launch of the Lunar Orbit Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13) as adverse weather conditions are expected during the scheduled countdown operations starting from one day prior to the launch day. The new launch date will be September 14 (Fri,) 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) The launch time is scheduled for 10:31:01 a.m. (JST.) We will re-examine the weather and other conditions tomorrow for the launch on the 14th. The launch was previously scheduled for September 13 (Thu,) 2007 (JST.) KAGUYA/H-IIA F13 to be launched at 10:31:01 a.m. on Sep. 14, 2007 (JST) Snip ------------------------ http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/* Launch of the KAGUYA (SELENE) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.13 (Sep 12, 2007) * Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency would like to announce that we have decided to carry out the launch of the Lunar Orbit Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13) on September 14 (Fri), 2007, (Japan Standard Time, JST,) as we informed you yesterday. The scheduled launch time is 10:31:01 a.m. (JST.) Snip ============================================================== Target Moon: Japan's Kaguya Probe Set for Lunar Mission http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=1C989:4A48D Larry Klaes Snip ----------------- http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070912_techwed_kaguyamoon.html *Target Moon: Japan's Kaguya Probe Set for Lunar Mission **By Tariq Malik * Staff Writer posted: 12 September 2007 7:00 a.m. ET Japan's massive Kaguya lunar orbiter stands poised to launch spaceward this week on a mission that, researchers hope, will unlock the secrets of the moon. Equipped with a veritable arsenal of science instruments and two baby satellites, the three-ton moon probe is set to liftoff from Japan early Friday (Local Time) on a one-year mission to Earth's nearest neighbor. "The Japanese people are very interested in this mission," said Shinichi Sobue, Kaguya's science coordinator and public outreach for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). "Kaguya, or SELENE, is our first mission for really observing the moon." Japan launched a previous lunar mission in 1990, but the flight served primarily as a technology demonstrator, Sobue told /SPACE.com/. That mission -- dubbed Muses-A -- sent the Hiten spacecraft on a series of lunar flybys and orbits, released the small microsatellite Hagoromo and intentionally crashed into the moon's surface in 1993. Snip ============================================================== Mr. Kellogg: I am sure you saw this: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST11303420070914?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=22&sp=true Bob MacBird Conroe, Texas Snip ----------------- REUTERS Japan's lunar "princess" shoots for the moon Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:14pm EDT By Teruaki Ueno TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan launched its first lunar probe on Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon. The rocket carrying the three-tonne orbiter took off into blue skies, leaving a huge trail of vapor over the tiny island of Tanegashima, about 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo, at 10:31 a.m. (9:31 p.m. EDT) as it headed out over the Pacific Ocean. The long-delayed lunar explorer separated from the rocket in skies near Chile about 45 minutes after lift off. It is to orbit the Earth twice and then travel 380,000 km (237,500 miles) to the moon. Snip ============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** JAXA MAIL SERVICE *** Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Launch Result of the KAGUYA (SELENE) by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13) September 14, 2007 (JST) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Lunar Orbit Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13) at 10:31:01 a.m. on September 14, 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 45 minutes and 34 seconds after liftoff, the separation of the KAGUYA was confirmed. We would like to express our profound appreciation for the cooperation and support of all related personnel and organizations that helped contribute to the successful launch of the KAGUYA aboard the H-IIA F13. At the time of the launch, the weather was clear, a wind speed was 5.9 m/second from the East South East, and the temperature was 29.8 degrees Celsius. This information is also available on the following Special Site. http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_e.html http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/index.html This page URL: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070914_h2a-f13_e.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Publisher : Public Affairs Department Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building, 1-6-5, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8260 Japan TEL:+81-3-6266-6400 JAXA WEB SITE : http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html About This Mail Service : To change registered e-mail address, or to cancel this service, please access to http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/mail/index_e.html Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sat Sep 15 14:36:25 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:36:25 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] KAGUYA (SELENE) on its way to the Moon and doing well Message-ID: <46EC2629.3020109@gmail.com> KAGUYA (SELENE) on its way to the Moon and doing well. Two posts from JAXA MAIL SERVICE copied below if you have not already signed up for them. Paul Hasselgren suggests that there is a need for a Lunar Standard Time. See his note below as well. And along the lines of fairy tail wishes and stories folks have posted headlines that say 'UK Astronauts on the Moon by 2020', which sounds like an new entry into those talking about going to the Moon. Then you read on that it is just urgings by some, still the squeaky wheel may get the oil and we can hope there will be more interested in looking up. ---------------------------------------------- http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gExXLG2bEppl_N7sfTOUI-0e2BAQ UK astronauts 'on moon by 2020s' British astronauts sporting Union flags on their space suits could be walking on the moon by the 2020s if ministers follow proposals set out by a Government agency working group. A report from the panel of scientists and industry experts, appointed by the British National Space Centre, urges the UK to start preparing for future manned space missions. Failure to do so could result in Britain being left behind as countries around the world head into space, it is claimed. If the plans are implemented, it will mark a complete turnaround of UK space policy. Snip ---------------------------------------------- Wonder what it will take to get more folks interested in finding new places to explore and possibly settle? Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** JAXA MAIL SERVICE *** Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KAGUYA (SELENE) Deployment of the High-Gain Antenna September 15, 2007 (JST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the deployment of the high-gain antenna of the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) had been successfully performed through telemetry data received at 6:52 p.m. on September 14, 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) The high-gain antenna plays a key role in communications between the satellite and the Earth. We have also acquired image data taken by the KAGUYA onboard camera at 10:53 p.m. (JST.) The satellite is currently in good health. An image of the high-gain antenna deployment taken by the onboard camera is attached below. We are preparing for the satellite injection into lunar orbit, and you can check our operation status in the following Special Site: ?http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_e.html? Attachment http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070915_kaguya_e.html#at This page URL: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070915_kaguya_e.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Publisher : Public Affairs Department Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building, 1-6-5, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8260 Japan TEL:+81-3-6266-6400 JAXA WEB SITE : http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html About This Mail Service : To change registered e-mail address, or to cancel this service, please access to http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/mail/index_e.html Snip ============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** JAXA MAIL SERVICE *** Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KAGUYA (SELENE) Deployment Status of the Solar Array Paddle September 15, 2007 (JST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the deployment of the solar array paddle of the "KAGUYA" (SELENE) had been successfully performed at 11:44 a.m. on September 14 (Japan Standard Time, JST) through signals and power generation data from the satellite, as we had explained at the post-launch press conference. We have acquired an image of the paddle deployment at 11:13 p.m. on the same day (JST) as attached below. You can also find the image in the following Special Site. ?http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_e.html? Attachment http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070915_kaguya-2_e.html#at This page URL: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070915_kaguya-2_e.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Publisher : Public Affairs Department Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building, 1-6-5, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8260 Japan TEL:+81-3-6266-6400 JAXA WEB SITE : http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html About This Mail Service : To change registered e-mail address, or to cancel this service, please access to http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/mail/index_e.html Snip ============================================================== Paul Hasselgren sent this bit for those going to the Moon to consider, well maybe for anyone who is thinking about going to the Moon as well. - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------- Dear Larry, Some day, we will colonize the Moon. Colonists will live their everyday lives, going to work, leaving kids at daycare centers, making appointments, and so on. Assuming that periods of daylight are of importance, living by a terrestrial clock (e.g. UTC) is not really an option - colonists need a calendar that makes sense to them. We propose the LST. We are LunarClock.org, a non-profit organization, and our mission is to promote and develop the Lunar Calendar and Standard Time (LST). We provide the current time (LST), information on the LST, a conversion tool (Terrestrial time to LST) and a javascript driven real time clock for incorporating in other websites. These things are continuously developed. We also supply help with converting dates and customizing scripts for other websites - all in the interest of promoting the LST and all free of charge of course. Whether or not you decide on bringing the LST to the attention of your audience, I would still like to thank you for your time. Kind regards, Paul Hasselgren LunarClock.org ------------------------------------------------ http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=LunarClock.org LunarClock.org LunarClock.org is a non-profit organization and our mission is to promote and develop the Lunar Calendar and Standard Time (LST). In the interest of promoting the LST, we provide: * The current time (LST) * Information on the LST * A conversion tool (Earth time to LST) * Downloadable material for incorporating in other websites * Help with converting dates and customizing scripts for other websites Links LunarClock.org --82.209.135.84 19:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC) Paul Hasselgren Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Sat Sep 15 23:53:25 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:53:25 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] And the winner is --- Message-ID: <46ECA8B5.4050504@gmail.com> And the winner is --- Eric Turkewitz # 9/15/2007 07:35:00 PM posted a bit about his brother winning a screenwriting competion. Are you writing about actions that take place on the Moon too? - LRK - ------------------------------------------------- http://www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com/2007/09/and-winner-is.html Saturday, September 15, 2007 And the Winner Is... Two weeks ago I wrote that my kid brother was a finalist in a screenwriting competition . Today, he took the gold prize in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category for Tranquility Base, beating 281 other entrants in his category. Not too shabby. So when I wrote last time that he needed an agent, I wasn't kidding. --------------------------------------------- About the script: Tranquility Base is the story of astronauts stranded in space in 2040. The action moves between the International Space Station, a Space Transport Plane, and a Moon Base Biosphere, as 15 astronauts struggle to secure the six available spots in the self-sustaining environment of the Moon Base. A combination of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Survivor, Tranquility Base examines the challenges man faces when his desire to help others conflicts with his instinct for survival. Snip http://www.internationalscreenwritingawards.com/2007-winners-alt.asp ------------------------------------------------- I know there are other winners out there too. - LRK - Good to see folks writing about the being on the Moon. Maybe that will help make it happen for real. - LRK - Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== This one page pdf has a nice diagram of the track to the Moon - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/topics/pdf/0916_0227_va1_e.pdf September 16, 2007 (JST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) KAGUYA (SELENE) Orbit Control Error Correction Maneuver (?Va1) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to carry out an orbit control error correction maneuver (?Va1) for the ?KAGUYA? (SELENE) from around 08:00a.m.on September 16, 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) You can also check this information on the following Special site: ?http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/? http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_e.html Snip ============================================================== Thought I would ask Google about 'Lunar stories' and the reply was ... -------------------------------------------------------------- http://uplink.space.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=scifi&Number=24345&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=1&o=0 kadetken *rock* 08/15/04 07:50 PM All of the above recommendations are good. I'll throw my top five Lunar stories into the mix. The ones that really left an impression on me were: 1) "The Moon is Hell", John Campbell (surviving while stranded on the Moon. It's harsh) 2) "Moon Monkeys", Wen Spencer (you laugh your a** off through the story, but when you find out why you feel like an a**. This one is really, really good) 3) "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robert Heinlein (a bit too much of the deus ex machina that Heinlein liked so much, though) 4) "The Sentinel", Arthur C. Clarke (the man signed my diploma, I gotta pay my props. I also liked "Earthshine" and "A Fall of Moondust". It's about time for another Moon story) 5) "Ice" Shane Johnson (The idea of Christian-themed sci-fi was intriguing, and the book does raise some interesting questions. A bit much in the deus ex machina department [duh!], but it's a good sci-fi yarn, and I'm glad that going to the Moon isn't beyond the pale of Christian thought) Runners up include: "Back to the Moon", Homer Hickham "Project Avalon", B. Alexander Howerton (this one has a rich industrialist deus ex machina, but does offer an intriguing puzzle. Lay six matches on a table, the goal is to arrange them to make four triangles.) "Growing up Weightless", John Ford "Moonbase"/"Moonwar", Ben Bova (this one has a nanotech deus ex machina but is fun beach reading. He also wrote "Millenium") "Stowaway to the Moon: The Camelot Odyssey", Richard Shelton (this is a great boy's adventure tale. There's no deus ex here, just a plucky young lad and a crew of astronaut heroes!) There are a lot of others. Our Moon has a rich amount of sci-fi associated with it. Snip ============================================================== http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070814-lunar-ark.html 'Lunar Ark' Proposed in Case of Deadly Impact on Earth Kevin Holden Platt for National Geographic News August 14, 2007 The moon should be developed as a sanctuary for civilization in case of a cataclysmic cosmic impact, according to an international team of experts. NASA already has blueprints to create a permanent lunar outpost by the 2020s. (Read: "Moon Base Announced by NASA" [December 4, 2006].) But that plan should be expanded to include a way to preserve humanity's learning, culture, and technology if Earth is hit by a doomsday asteroid or comet, said Jim Burke of International Space University (ISU) in France. Burke, once a project manager on some of the earliest American lunar landings, now heads an ISU study on surviving a collision with a near-Earth object. Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Thu Sep 20 21:12:04 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:12:04 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Future Shock - where to now? Message-ID: <46F31A64.404@gmail.com> Future Shock - where to now? Alvin Toffler wrote "Future Shock" back in 1970, and in it he describes how the rapid and accelerating changes were affecting how we live and think. The concern was that we would not be able to adapt to all of these changes. I am finding it very interesting to read again and see that we are changing even more than predicted. When I got out of the Navy in 1983 I found that you could be out of date with your knowledge and skills very quickly if you didn't continually keep updating yourself on what was the latest technology. PCs started coming out and you could sell a different one almost every weekend while looking for something to do after the Navy. Since 1995 it seems that there has been an explosion of material available on the Internet. Now in 2007 I find that as I learn what being a fifth grader is all about with our watching the grandchildren, that much has changed. We are doing Internet searches and writing reports with Microsoft Word, along with copying hand drawn pictures into Photoshop and putting them into the reports. The ten year old was showing me where the spell checker was and how you could tell it to quit checking some name as spelled wrong. The sixth grader's teacher uses an overhead projector connected to a computer to display material on the white board and he can interact with the material while standing in front of the class. No felt tips, no chalk dust, all of his lesson plans and material on the computer available without having to leave the front of the room. We saw Google Moon and could zoom into the swiss cheese, now updated with more information and images. http://www.google.com/moon/ http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html Add to this a bundle of money available to an X-Prize winner who can send a robot mission to the Moon. Soon the Internet will be serving up info from the Moon, and maybe available to the Lunar Base on their secure local area network. Will I be able to tap into the network and broadcast links to other bases? Send live data back to everyone? NASA is looking for new astronauts. Will the students be ready and interested? Check out the Space Report ("JSR") and see all the launches that happened last month. Looks like a number of businesses are interested in looking up. And if you have the time and bandwidth you may be set thinking by watching "Did You Know?", from the University of Minnesota . https://umconnect.umn.edu/didyouknow Interesting video they put together about where we are and what is changing. - LRK - Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=23546* NASA Opens Applications for New Astronaut Class * *PRESS RELEASE* *Date Released:* Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Source: NASA HQ HOUSTON - NASA is accepting applications for the 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class. Those selected could fly to space for long-duration stays on the International Space Station and missions to the moon. "We look forward to gathering applications and then being able to select from the largest pool possible," said Ellen Ochoa, NASA's chief of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center. "Continuing our impressive record in successfully carrying out challenging human spaceflight missions depends on maintaining a talented and diverse astronaut corps." To be considered, a bachelor's degree in engineering, science or math and three years of relevant professional experience are required. Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science, or extensive experience flying high-performance jet aircraft. Teaching experience, including work at the kindergarten through 12th grade level, is considered qualifying. Educators with the appropriate educational background are encouraged to apply. After a six-month period of evaluation and interviews, NASA will announce final selections in early 2009. Astronaut candidates will report to Johnson in the summer of 2009 to begin the basic training program to prepare them for future spaceflight assignments. NASA will accept applications through July 1, 2008. To apply visit: http://www.usajobs.gov Additional information about the Astronaut Candidate Program is available by calling the Astronaut Selection Office at 281-483-5907 or by visiting: http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/recruit.html Snip ============================================================== http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html The Space Report ("JSR") is issued about twice a month. It describes all space launches, including both piloted missions and automated satellites. Back issues are available online . To receive the JSR each week by direct email, send a message to majordomo at host.planet4589.org, with a blank subject line and message body containing the single line "subscribe jsr". Feel free to reproduce the JSR as long as you're not doing it for profit. If you are doing so regularly, please inform Jonathan by email. Comments, suggestions, and corrections are encouraged. You can mail Jonathan McDowell at *jcm at host.planet4589.org*. Jonathan's Space Report No. 585 2007 Sep 19, Somerville ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station ------------------- Endeavour landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 1632 UTC on Aug 21. The deorbit burn at 1525 UTC lowered the orbit from 336 x 347 km to about -28 x 342 km; landing mass was 100878 kg. On Aug 30 the PMA-3 docking port was moved from Unity's port side to its nadir side, freeing the port side for use by the Harmony module to be launched on STS-120. The Canadarm-2 was used to unberth PMA-3 about 1215 UTC and reattach it at 1309 UTC. Proton failure -------------- A Krunichev Proton-M rocket failed just after second stage ignition on Sep 6, destroying the Japanese JCSAT-11 communications satellite payload. Proton-M serial 53522 took off from complex 39 at area 200 with JCSAT-11 and the Briz-M No. 88522 upper stage. The first stage separated 2 min after launch. It seems there was some kind of problem with second stage ignition, and the vehicle fell back to Earth from an altitude of around 75 km. JCSAT-11 was a Lockheed Martin A2100 series satellite with a launch mass of 4007 kg. Kosmos-2427 ----------- Russia's Kosmos-2427 Kobal't-M class imaging satellite, launched on June 7, landed around 2100 UTC on Aug 22 after 76 days. Two objects, 2007-22D and E, separated in orbit prior to the recovery from a 178 x 350 km x 67.1 deg orbit. Insat 4CR [And much more, see web site if you don't get Jonathan's posts. - LRK -] Snip ============================================================== http://www.universetoday.com/2007/09/18/google-moon-gets-a-big-update/ Google Moon Gets a Big Update Written by Fraiser Cain When Google Moon was released last year, it was a bit of a joke. Google Earth, but for the Moon. Zoom in far enough and the familiar lunar craters were replaced with swiss cheese. The time for silliness is over, Google Moon has gotten an update, and they're making it a serious learning tool this time around. The website incorporates photographs from orbiters and the Apollo missions to let you zoom in and out, exploring the Moon. Head over to Google Moon , and follow along. You can change the view between Charts, Apollo, Visible and Elevation. All of the Apollo landing sites are marked on the map, so you can click each one to get more information. Zoom in all the way, and you don't see swiss cheese anymore. Instead you see the most detailed images available from NASA showing high resolution details about the landing sites. Each landing site has more than 10 additional detailed place markers, showing points of interest about the mission. Snip ============================================================== Some links from The Space Review - LRK - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review: Google's moonshot --- Last week Google and the X Prize Foundation rolled out a prize for a privately-developed lunar rover. Jeff Foust reports on the announcement and analyses the challenges any competitors will face in trying to win the prize. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/957/1 Gallery: Google Lunar X Prize at NextFest --- A selection of images from the Google Lunar X Prize announcement and other events at the Wired NextFest event last Thursday in Los Angeles. http://www.thespacereview.com/gallery/20 Finishing the space station --- After years of delays and threats of cancellation, the International Space Station is finally entering the home stretch of its assembly phase. Taylor Dinerman reviews the challenges the station program has faced, both technical and programmatic. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/956/1 From the European garage --- When a European company rolled out its entry into the suborbital space tourism sweepstakes, it was dismissive of entrepreneurial, largely American ventures. Bob Clarebrough argues that European companies could learn a lesson or two from American garage tinkerers. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/955/1 It's Solar System Ambassador time! --- JPL is recruiting a new class of "ambassadors" designed to educate the public about space exploration. Tom Hill describes the program and explains why you should sign up. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/954/1 Snip We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as any other questions, comments, or suggestions about The Space Review. We're also actively soliciting articles to publish in future issues, so if you have an article or article idea that you think would be of interest, please email me. Until next week, Jeff Foust Editor, The Space Review jeff at thespacereview.com Snip ============================================================== http://www.nss.org/settlement/moon/xprize.html Google Lunar X Prize Video Snip ============================================================== http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007292.html Japan's Selene satellite aims to get best Moon views yet Emily Gertz September 19, 2007 3:26 PM I love space exploration -- the promise of new science and new information about the world(s) around us is so bracing! -- so I'm happy to note today's successful launch by Japan of a Moon exploration satellite around 10:30 local time from the Tanegashima Space Center. According to news at nature.com , "The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is calling it the biggest lunar mission since NASA's Apollo programme. The JPY 32 billion (US$279 million) satellite, called the Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), will survey the Moon's mineralogy, topology and gravity gradients." What most Americans don't know, and perhaps other nationals as well, is that the Apollo missions did not fully map the Moon. So SELENE will be sending back a lot of new data via 15 different devices on board, from "an X-ray spectrometer and a gamma-ray spectrometer for mapping the Moon's surface in unrivalled detail, and a terrain camera, laser altimeter and radar sounder that will provide surface and subsurface data for studying the Moon's tectonic history." SELENE may help us finally solve the puzzle of where the Moon actually came from, as well as being an advance guard towards a proposed Japanese moon base. Snip ============================================================== http://www.lpod.org/index.php?paged=11 LPOD lunar photo of the day September 10, 2007 Filed under: map , names , humans on Moon ? chuckwood @ 12:06 am US-1 AND OTHER SIGNPOSTS If you are going to the Moon you need more names than are required for Earthly observers. In preparation for their rehearsal of Apollo 11?s landing, the Apollo 10 crew created more than 40 informal placenames to use as landmarks and to communicate to the mission controllers in Houston where they were on approach to the Apollo 11 landing site (IIP-6 on the chart). The names are either descriptive - /The Trio, Sidewinder Rille, and The Cape/, or personal / Marilyn/ is Jim Lovell?s wife, / Weatherford/ is the town where Tom Stafford was born, and /SP Crater/ is a crater near Flagstaff, AZ, which the astronauts undoubtedly visited during their training. Once again, perhaps these names would have been lost except for Phil Stooke?s recovery and inclusion of them in his new /The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration /. I thank Phil for sharing with LPOD in advance of publication of his book! /Chuck Wood/ Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Wed Sep 26 14:16:16 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:16:16 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Heinlein in Hollywood - In this week's issue of The Space Review Message-ID: <46FAA1F0.4080703@gmail.com> Heinlein in Hollywood - In this week's issue of The Space Review I know, I often copy items from Jeff Foust's "The Space Revew" but I find he often has some interesting articles and I don't know if you all are signed up to receive his e-mail alerts to what he has posted on the web at - http://www.thespacereview.com/index.html Having read a few of Heinlein's books of late and having not seen any of the movies based on them, I was interested in what was said about why making films about the books was so difficult. My ulterior motive there was to learn more about what might be the chances of seeing some movies made about the possibilities of going back to the Moon for an extended stay that would lead to lunar bases that were extended in size and maybe had interesting stories to tell. I have a stack of books on the coffee table that talk about the Apollo missions, and talk about what would be required for a Lunar Base but I haven't figured out how to tell an exciting story of building a Moon Base. If I wanted to write a novel I could sign myself up to a month of typing and see if I could generate 50,000 words that could later be worked into something of interest. ------------------------------------------------------------------- What is NaNoWriMo? http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeroen Lapre is still working on his Maesltrom II movie and making progress. Hopefully we will soon see that showing. [See e-mail clip below.] - LRK - Bob MacBird commented on NASA's trailer on going to the Moon. When you watch it you see that it ends up with the return craft leaving a lot of huts behind. This sort of looks like what we did before, run up to the Moon and then quit. Hope that isn't what happens for the future missions. Would like to see something developed and not just leave behind a ghost base on the Moon. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------------- The entire movie as seen on YouTube: _http://youtube.com/watch?v=L1__6TzLOqo_ ------------------------------------------------------------------- More information in the links below. Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Clipped from Jeff Foust's "The Space Review" http://www.thespacereview.com/index.html - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review: Space economies and economics --- Since the beginning of the Space Age advocates of spaceflight have sought to justify the billions spent on government space programs on economic grounds. Jeff Foust reports on recent comments by NASA administrator Mike Griffin on the "Space Economy" and the need for more partnerships between the public and private sectors. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/962/1 Heinlein in Hollywood --- Robert A. Heinlein had a significant impact on science fiction and spaceflight, but his legacy in translating his works to the big and small screen is mixed at best. Dwayne Day examines that record and why such adaptations have been so difficult. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/961/1 Still crazy after four decades: The case for withdrawing from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty --- It's been 40 years since the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, one of the cornerstones of international space law. John Hickman describes how the treaty has hindered, not supported, the development and settlement of space, and why it may now be time to scrap it. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/960/1 Please, Mr. Bezos --- Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, has operated under a shroud of secrecy. Taylor Dinerman argues that it would do the company, and the industry, some good to be a little more open. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/959/1 Review: Two Shadows on the Moon --- As luck would have it, a documentary film about the Apollo Moon landings shares a title with a new book on the same topic. Jeff Foust reviews the two and finds that despite the different media, the two have much more in common than their titles. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/958/1 Snip ============================================================== http://www.thespacereview.com/archive.html Articles previously published in The Space Review: [Check them out if you are not on Jeff's e-mail list. - LRK -] Snip ============================================================== Dear Maesltrom II Crew, Consultants, and Friends, I am pleased to inform you that the first third of the Maelstrom II edit is locked! The website has been updated with these latest animatics: http://www.distant-galaxy.com/maelstrom2/MaelstromII.html There is now a link in the left sidebar called Animatics. You may need to refresh your browser to see the updates. Click on the Animatics link to go to the animatics page. Now that these shots have been locked, this means that we can assign visual effects tasks for the shots, toward the completion of the film. Best wishes, -- -jeroen lapre digital artist www.ilm.com Snip ============================================================== Fred Becker brought this list of links on why we should explore space to a committee we are on. See if any of them has information that might help you answer the TOUGH QUESTIONS by the MEDIA and PUBLIC. - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Planetary Society Why We Explore by James D. Burke James D. Burke is Technical Editor of The Planetary Report. http://www.planetary.org/explore/why.html NASA Why We Explore (Note this is archived, the current site lists only the planetary items). http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/whywe_archives.html Current Version http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/ NASA Mike Griffin http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/Uncommentary.php Why America Needs to Explore Space By Neil deGrasse Tyson Published: August 5, 2007 http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_08-05-2007/Space http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/08/06/neil-tyson-on-exploring-space/ Why Explore Space? By Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger Member of the Alexander Order http://www.meaus.com/whyExplore.html NSS Statement of Philosophy http://www.nss.org/about/philosophy.html A Business Plan for the Development of the Langrange Points: The Gateway to the High Frontier Jay Thomas Steven J. Neurauter http://ssi.org/?page_id=46 4 Frontiers Library Numerous documents along these lines. http://www.4frontierscorp.com/library/document_publications.php Apollo 11 The July 16, 1969 Launch: A Symbol of Man's Greatness By Ayn Rand Excerpted from "Apollo 11," The Objectivist, September, 1969 http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_apollo11 Space Quotes to Ponder Collected by Sylvia Engdahl To survive To preserve Earth To eliminate war To grow Time is running out... To evolve ...To achieve the goal visionaries have foreseen http://www.spacequotes.com/ Space and Human Survival A serious links page about this subject. http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm#links Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Wed Sep 26 20:41:49 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:41:49 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Heinlein in Hollywood - In this week's issue of The Space Review - corrected links - Message-ID: <46FAFC4D.7030206@gmail.com> Heinlein in Hollywood - In this week's issue of The Space Review [added the link here. - LRK -] http://www.thespacereview.com/article/961/1 I know, I often copy items from Jeff Foust's "The Space Revew" but I find he often has some interesting articles and I don't know if you all are signed up to receive his e-mail alerts to what he has posted on the web at - http://www.thespacereview.com/index.html Having read a few of Heinlein's books of late and having not seen any of the movies based on them, I was interested in what was said about why making films about the books was so difficult. My ulterior motive there was to learn more about what might be the chances of seeing some movies made about the possibilities of going back to the Moon for an extended stay that would lead to lunar bases that were extended in size and maybe had interesting stories to tell. I have a stack of books on the coffee table that talk about the Apollo missions, and talk about what would be required for a Lunar Base but I haven't figured out how to tell an exciting story of building a Moon Base. If I wanted to write a novel I could sign myself up to a month of typing and see if I could generate 50,000 words that could later be worked into something of interest. ------------------------------------------------------------------- What is NaNoWriMo? http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeroen Lapre is still working on his Maesltrom II movie and making progress. Hopefully we will soon see that showing. [See e-mail clip below.] - LRK - Bob MacBird commented on NASA's trailer on going to the Moon. When you watch it you see that it ends up with the return craft leaving a lot of huts behind. This sort of looks like what we did before, run up to the Moon and then quit. Hope that isn't what happens for the future missions. Would like to see something developed and not just leave behind a ghost base on the Moon. - LRK - ------------------------------------------------------------------- The entire movie as seen on YouTube: [corrected broken link to YouTube Video - LRK -] http://youtube.com/watch?v=L1__6TzLOqo ------------------------------------------------------------------- More information in the links below. Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== Clipped from Jeff Foust's "The Space Review" http://www.thespacereview.com/index.html - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review: Space economies and economics --- Since the beginning of the Space Age advocates of spaceflight have sought to justify the billions spent on government space programs on economic grounds. Jeff Foust reports on recent comments by NASA administrator Mike Griffin on the "Space Economy" and the need for more partnerships between the public and private sectors. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/962/1 Heinlein in Hollywood --- Robert A. Heinlein had a significant impact on science fiction and spaceflight, but his legacy in translating his works to the big and small screen is mixed at best. Dwayne Day examines that record and why such adaptations have been so difficult. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/961/1 Still crazy after four decades: The case for withdrawing from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty --- It's been 40 years since the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, one of the cornerstones of international space law. John Hickman describes how the treaty has hindered, not supported, the development and settlement of space, and why it may now be time to scrap it. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/960/1 Please, Mr. Bezos --- Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, has operated under a shroud of secrecy. Taylor Dinerman argues that it would do the company, and the industry, some good to be a little more open. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/959/1 Review: Two Shadows on the Moon --- As luck would have it, a documentary film about the Apollo Moon landings shares a title with a new book on the same topic. Jeff Foust reviews the two and finds that despite the different media, the two have much more in common than their titles. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/958/1 Snip ============================================================== http://www.thespacereview.com/archive.html Articles previously published in The Space Review: [Check them out if you are not on Jeff's e-mail list. - LRK -] Snip ============================================================== Dear Maesltrom II Crew, Consultants, and Friends, I am pleased to inform you that the first third of the Maelstrom II edit is locked! The website has been updated with these latest animatics: http://www.distant-galaxy.com/maelstrom2/MaelstromII.html There is now a link in the left sidebar called Animatics. You may need to refresh your browser to see the updates. Click on the Animatics link to go to the animatics page. Now that these shots have been locked, this means that we can assign visual effects tasks for the shots, toward the completion of the film. Best wishes, -- -jeroen lapre digital artist www.ilm.com Snip ============================================================== Fred Becker brought this list of links on why we should explore space to a committee we are on. See if any of them has information that might help you answer the TOUGH QUESTIONS by the MEDIA and PUBLIC. - LRK - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Planetary Society Why We Explore by James D. Burke James D. Burke is Technical Editor of The Planetary Report. http://www.planetary.org/explore/why.html NASA Why We Explore (Note this is archived, the current site lists only the planetary items). http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/whywe_archives.html Current Version http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/ NASA Mike Griffin http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/Uncommentary.php Why America Needs to Explore Space By Neil deGrasse Tyson Published: August 5, 2007 http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_08-05-2007/Space http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/08/06/neil-tyson-on-exploring-space/ Why Explore Space? By Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger Member of the Alexander Order http://www.meaus.com/whyExplore.html NSS Statement of Philosophy http://www.nss.org/about/philosophy.html A Business Plan for the Development of the Langrange Points: The Gateway to the High Frontier Jay Thomas Steven J. Neurauter http://ssi.org/?page_id=46 4 Frontiers Library Numerous documents along these lines. http://www.4frontierscorp.com/library/document_publications.php Apollo 11 The July 16, 1969 Launch: A Symbol of Man's Greatness By Ayn Rand Excerpted from "Apollo 11," The Objectivist, September, 1969 http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_apollo11 Space Quotes to Ponder Collected by Sylvia Engdahl To survive To preserve Earth To eliminate war To grow Time is running out... To evolve ...To achieve the goal visionaries have foreseen http://www.spacequotes.com/ Space and Human Survival A serious links page about this subject. http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm#links Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ============================================================== From larry.kellogg at gmail.com Thu Sep 27 12:18:38 2007 From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com (Larry Kellogg) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:18:38 -0700 Subject: [lunar-update] Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Launched --- 09-27-07 Message-ID: <46FBD7DE.3080504@gmail.com> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html 09.27.07 - Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Launched http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/190705main_launch-browse.jpg NASA's Dawn spacecraft began its 3 billion kilometer (1.7 billion mile) journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids Thursday. + Read More Media Resources + Release: Dawn Successfully Launched + View Press Kit (2.2Mb pdf) Looks like it should have put on a good show. Up, Up, and Away. Mission Overview . Thanks for looking up with me. - LRK - Larry Kellogg Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/ BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/ RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update ============================================================== http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 27, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 RELEASE: 07-212 DAWN SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Dawn spacecraft began its 1.7 billion mile journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids Thursday at 7:34 a.m. EDT. The Delta 2 rocket, fitted with nine strap-on solid-fuel boosters, safely climbed away from the Florida coastline and launch complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. "We have our time machine up and flying," said Dawn Principal Investigator Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles. Dawn is scheduled to begin its exploration of Vesta in 2011 and Ceres in 2015. The two icons of the asteroid belt are located in orbit between Mars and Jupiter and have been witness to so much of our solar system's history. By using the same set of instruments at two separate destinations, scientists can more accurately formulate comparisons and contrasts. Dawn's science instrument suite will measure shape, surface topography and tectonic history, elemental and mineral composition as well as seek out water-bearing minerals. A critical milestone for the spacecraft comes in is acquiring its signal. The launch team expects that to occur in approximately 2-3 hours. For the latest information about Dawn and its mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe at mediaservices.nasa.gov Snip ============================================================== WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK ============================================================== This is the lunar-update at news.altair.com https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update This list is a moderated list. The moderator is Larry Kellogg (larry.kellogg AT gmail.com) Please send suggestions for postings directly to Larry. ==============================================================