Ken Murphy / 3:34 am February 29th, 2008

Starts with a Bang!, who brings us a stellar collection of trophies for the space blog community in this week’s Carnival!

The Carnivals of Space continue to gather great new content, all of which can be visited at the archives, including the stops here at Out of the Cradle.

Ken Murphy / 2:30 am February 26th, 2008

American Museum of Natural History
“Field Trip to the Moon”
2007
EG-2007-09-120-MSFC
Educator’s Guide (pdf)
Informal Educator’s Guide (pdf)
Companion Guide (pdf)

Librarian’s Note: This is an excellent phenomenal set of materials. The Classroom Investigations are quite well done, and cover different team areas like Ecosystem, Geology, Habitat, Engineering, Navigation and Medical. I can easily envision a larger investigation built around this core with, for example, the Ecosystem team looking into NASA’s Lunar Plant Growth Chamber Challenge, the Navigation team downloading a copy of Orbiter and actually working out the voyage to the Moon and back, the Geology team getting a copy of “The Pocket Guide to Lunar Mineralogy” and putting together a collection of genuine fake Moon rocks, the Medical team visiting the “Human Physiology in Space” website for a mind-boggling amount of information (HS level), the Engineering team doing a Solar Cell project, perhaps to recharge a rover, and the Habitat team putting together a diorama of a habitat layout. Additional materials and resources are available at the website. Kudos to the American Museum of Natural History for putting this one together!

Ken Murphy / 2:26 am February 26th, 2008

“Solar System Floor Puzzle”
Learning Resources
Unknown Year
Stock # LER 3321
Publisher’s Web Site

Ken Murphy / 2:12 am February 26th, 2008

Andromeda Television Ltd.
“Jupiter Moon - The New Frontier, Vol.1″
Image Entertainment
1990 (2007)
Publisher’s Web Site
BBC Cult News Review

Best of the Moon 2008 - High Frontier Fiction

Ken Murphy / 1:34 am February 25th, 2008

Byrne Charles J.
“The Far Side of the Moon - A Photographic Guide”
Springer
2008
ISBN13: 978-0-387-73205-3
Publisher’s Web Site

Librarian’s Note: Impressive! Includes a large section on one of my favorite Lunar features, the deepest impact remnant in the known Solar system, stretching from the Lunar South pole nearly all the way to the Lunar equator, the phenomenal Aitken Basin! (a/k/a South Pole/Aitken Basin, a/k/a SPAB). It uses images from not only the Lunar Orbiter program (of which Mr. Byrne was a part), but also Clementine, Luna 3, Zond 3, Apollo 16, and Nozomi. A strong addition to the Selenography section of the Lunar Library.

Ken Murphy / 1:30 am February 25th, 2008

Matloff, Gregory L., Les Johnson & C. Bangs
“Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos”
Copernicus Books
2007
ISBN13: 978-0-387-36054-6
Publisher’s Web Site

Ken Murphy / 1:34 am February 20th, 2008

O’Neill, Ian
“Building a Base on the Moon: Part 3 - Structural Design”
Universe Today
02/20/2008
On-Line Text

Ken Murphy / 11:24 pm February 18th, 2008

Astronomy Cast Episode 76: Lagrange Points
Dr. Fraser Cain & Pamela Gay
02/18/2008
On-Line Podcast

Best of the Moon 2008 - High Frontier EML-1

Ken Murphy / 4:43 am February 13th, 2008

Ron Howard presents Discovery Films
“In the Shadow of the Moon”
Lionsgate Films
2007 (2008)
Publisher’s Web Site
NYTimes Review
SciFi.com Review
NSS Reading Space Review

Librarian’s Note: This is a powerful documentary, and one of the finest Apollo documentaries around. Mike Collins is clearly the star of the show, but so too is the ice and fire of the Saturn launch, or Buzz’s long pause on the way down to the surface, or Charlie Duke posing the question “If we were going to fake going to the Moon, why would we do it nine times?” Best seen on the biggest screen you can find with the loudest system you can get your hands on, because that Saturn thunders!

READ MORE…

Ken Murphy / 4:15 am February 13th, 2008

Fisher Price/Toys”R”Us exclusive
“PlanetHeroes Moonbuggy”
2007
Publisher’s Web Site

Ken Murphy / 4:10 am February 13th, 2008

Fisher Price
“PlanetHeroes: Moon ‘Lunar’”
2007
Publisher’s Web Site

Ken Murphy / 4:44 am February 9th, 2008

O’Neill, Ian
“Building a Base on the Moon: Part 2 - Habitat Concepts”
Universe Today
02/09/2008

Ken Murphy / 2:46 am February 8th, 2008

O’Neill, Ian
Building a Base on the Moon: Part 1 - Challenges and Hazards
Universe Today
02/07/2008

Librarian’s Note: A nice intro to the idea of building a Moon base.

Ken Murphy / 2:25 am February 8th, 2008

Orbiting Frog puts a new spin on the Carnival for its 40th incarnation!

When you’re done there be sure to stop by the archives for any Carnivals you might have missed.

Ken Murphy / 3:24 am February 7th, 2008

Katsuhiko Chiba
“Freedom 3″
Honneamise/Bandai Visual
2006 (2008)
Publisher’s Web Site

Librarian’s Note: A very well-done anime and interesting story, but it suffers from being too short, too expensive, and who knows how long until the next one. (Supposedly Feb. 26th, still waiting at mid-June. I have a feeling the HD format is the hiccup here, with the market choosing blu-ray)

Ken Murphy / 3:07 am February 7th, 2008

Lego®
Nickelodeon’s® SpongeBob Squarepants TM Rocket Ride
2008
Stock #3831
Publisher’s Web Site

Librarian’s Note: 100% a fan of Lego®, 0% a fan of SpongeBobTM. Regardless, this is a wickedly cool retro rocket, plus a Moon buggy with trailer. I’m hoping I can trade the SpongeBobTM pieces with my nephews for my old astronaut Legos®. [No luck, they’re long lost] I can see this one getting a lot of play at our next NSS-NT display, and I’m sure my nephews will have it in laser battles with my Moon ZX-1, which is about the same size.

Ken Murphy / 5:12 am February 1st, 2008

Selenology Today #9
February 2008
On-Line Text (pdf)
Publisher’s Web Site