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Orbital Debris Quarterly NewsletterKen Murphy / 2:40 am October 30th, 2007  Orbital Debris Program Office “Lunar Landing Site Chart, 3rd Ed.” (map)Ken Murphy / 2:34 am October 30th, 2007 “Lunar Landing Site Chart, 3rd Ed.” Librarian’s Note: A classic from LPI, still more from the packet of space goodies for my Moon class. Prof. Wood really, really wants us to learn the major features of the face of the Moon. “The Lunar Games” (lithograph)Ken Murphy / 2:24 am October 30th, 2007  Rawings, Pat, artist Librarian’s Note: More Moon class swag. Lunar 100 CardKen Murphy / 2:10 am October 30th, 2007  Wood, Charles A. Librarian’s Note: We received a photocopy of this excellent laminated card as part of our Moon course swag. I’d already picked one up at The Observatory here in Dallas. “BioBLAST” (CD-ROM)Ken Murphy / 12:57 am October 23rd, 2007  NASA Classroom of the Future Librarian’s Note: A nice bit of Moon class swag. This biology adventure program challenges 8-12 graders to make a bioregenerative life support system involving plants for a Moonbase. Lunar Plant Growth Chamber challengeKen Murphy / 12:55 am October 23rd, 2007
Librarian’s Note: Get a head start with: Update: NASA will have webcasts with important information regarding this challenge on October 23rd and 30th. Details are here. Further Update: See also the Out of the Cradle feature article for more links to Moon plants: “Of a Garden on the Moon” “Plymouth” (DVD)Ken Murphy / 12:49 am October 23rd, 2007 “Plymouth” Librarian’s Note: Another one of the “Legendary Titles” amongst space advocates that I’ve been trying to get a copy of forever, this is a story of a town in Oregon that relocates to the Moon after an industrial ecological disaster to reestablish the town’s mining heritage. This was a pilot to a series that never happened. “Moontrap” (DVD)Ken Murphy / 12:47 am October 23rd, 2007  “Moontrap” “Freedom 2″ (DVD)Ken Murphy / 12:35 am October 23rd, 2007 Katsuhiko Chiba “Freedom 1″ (DVD)Ken Murphy / 1:01 am October 20th, 2007 Katsuhiko Chiba Librarian’s Note: An interesting tale, if pricey. Rated 13-up. Basically pod-racing on the Moon in Episode 1, leading to a deeper mystery, one that I have a feeling is about freedom and control and vested interests. Actually, the pod racing has me all excited about Lunar Racing Championship! “Planetes Soundtrack, O.S.T. 1 & 2″ (CD)Ken Murphy / 12:15 pm October 16th, 2007 “Planetes Soundtrack, O.S.T. 1 & 2″ Librarian’s Note: Planetes is a great series in both anime and manga forms, and the best near-space, near-future story around right now in either format. Some of the music is uplifting, some a bit goofy, there’s quite a variety of styles, but all are now on my MP3 player. “Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security”Ken Murphy / 12:09 am October 13th, 2007  Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study Librarian’s Note: This is an excellent and important paper. This is the one project that the Baby Boom generation (and their kids Gens X & Y) can undertake that will leave a permanent investment in our nation’s posterity, and also serve the world. We invented this, and we can make it happen, though ultimately this is a global project, which means lots of business opportunity. Part of the solution is that the current oil-producing nations absolutely need to be able to take a stake in the venture. The main end being eliminating the cultural nihilism that would accompany the end of oil production and the ending of the cash flows associated therewith, and moderating some of the more extremist views by a continued investment in energy delivery. It will be very hard to accomplish, many people will die in horrible ways in space, and it will not be cheap in the beginning. If there was ever a reason to bring back Century Bonds (with 100 year tenors), this would be it. But this is the closest we will come to clean and permanent energy for a while. If we pass on this opportunity, it may be a long time before it returns. If we take it, we can start weaning ourselves from hydrocarbons and their deleterious effects while building a cislunar economy for even greater prosperity for the peoples of the world. Go read this report. “The Moon: Resources, Future Development,and Settlement”Ken Murphy / 11:22 pm October 11th, 2007 Schrunk, David, Burton Sharpe, Bonnie Cooper & Madhu Thangavelu Out of the Cradle Review Librarian’s Note: Thanks to Bonnie Cooper at Oceaneering Space Systems for this addition to the Lunar Library. There’s over a hundred pages of additional and updated material, a couple new appendices, some color plates in the middle, and more. “Moon Base One” (download)Ken Murphy / 9:01 pm October 6th, 2007  Federation of Galaxy Explorers (FOGE) Librarian’s Note: A great educational resource! Monogram ‘First Lunar Landing’ (1:48 scale model)Ken Murphy / 7:29 pm October 6th, 2007  Monogram “Evolution’s Child”Ken Murphy / 6:51 pm October 6th, 2007 Lesher, Charles Senate votes more money for NASARob Wilson / 2:26 am October 5th, 2007 50 years to the day after the space race began, the US Senate has voted to commit an extra billion dollars to NASA’s budget. The Moon gets a visitorRob Wilson / 10:50 pm October 4th, 2007 There’s lots of talk at the moment about various different nations sending unmanned spacecraft to the Moon. In the meantime, Japan has gone ahead and done it:
Congratulations to the Kaguya team! Happy anniversary, Sputnik! Rob Wilson / 9:22 pm October 4th, 2007 50 years ago today, the space age began when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite. That little silver ball started something quite amazing - literally the beginning of the transformation of humanity into a space-faring society. But, looking back over the last 50 years, we have to acknowledge that, in the grand scale of things, we have only just begun. Cheap, reliable access to space, and cheap reliable operations in the space environment, remain hard nuts to crack. The work of decades and probably centuries lies ahead. “The Exploration of, and Conquest of, the Moon!”Ken Murphy / 2:55 pm October 4th, 2007   Murphy, Ken Putting the ’spin’ in spin-offsRob Wilson / 1:41 am October 3rd, 2007 I don’t much like the spin-offs argument for why we should have a space program. Here’s a good example of why. It’s a weak justification. If you can damn with a faint praise, the spin-off argument is damning with a weak justification. You don’t justify something like the space program on the basis of its serendipitous spin-offs - they’re just accidental bonuses along the way. Having said that, the space program spawned at least one pretty big accidental bonus. Selenology Today #8Ken Murphy / 5:13 am October 1st, 2007  Selenology Today #8 |
Out of the Cradle Classics25 Good Reasons to Go to the Moon Carnivals of Space #112 - The Big Moon Day Show #94 #57 - This One's for the Ladies #31 #18 Best of the Moon 2008 2007 2006 Teacher Tools for the High Frontier Big Moon edition Space Navigation Rocks in Space International Space Station Technology Samples Of a Garden on the Moon Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 
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