Noland, David
“How to Win the Lunar X-Prize”
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
On-Line Text
On-Line Podcast
Librarian’s Note: A nice overview of the Lunar X-Prize and the teams competing, there’s also an article by Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on the fight for land rights on the Moon. (The real issue is not deeds and claims, but rather the lack of a dispute resolution mechanism. Anyone is free to go to the Moon and set up shop, with the expectation of peaceful, unimpeded use of whatever area is necessary for whatever operations are established. The problem is that when someone goes mucking around and messes up someone else’s operations, there’s no consequence because there’s no mechanism for resolving the dispute or enforcing the judgements)
Daley, Michael J.
“Rat Trap”
Holiday House
2008
ISBN13: 978-0-823-42093-3
Publisher’s Web Site
Wasser, Alan and Douglas Jobes
“Space Settlements, Property Rights, and International Law: Could a Lunar Settlement Claim the Lunar Real Estate it Needs to Survive?”
SMU Journal of Air Law and Commerce
Vol. 73, #1
Winter 2008
pp. 38-78
On-Line Text (pdf)
Wingo, Dennis
“Bootstrapping the Moon”
SpaceRef
05/07/2008
On-Line Text
Wonder Globe
Replogle Globes
Publisher’s Web Site (Desk - <6″ - Other)
Spring is in full bloom here in the metroplex, so I had to dig the rollerblades out of the closet. This will be my fifteenth year rollerblading, and I think the main reason that I continue to do so is that it is absolute joy. There’s a small park here in Addison Circle with a nice loop over by the airport that I like to blade around, in part because it reminds me of the ‘roller rink’ in Central Park, NYC.
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Clark, Jerome
“The Men Who Once Lived in the Moon”
Fate Magazine
05/2008
Publisher’s Web Site
Beattie, Donald A.
“New Lunar Exploration”
Spaceflight - The Magazine of Astronautics and Outer Space
Vol. 50, # 3
March 2008
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: A critical look at the current and near-future missions to the Moon and what information they will contribute in light of what we already know. He’s not terribly favorable, and appears to feel that Mars is really what we should be focusing our attention on.
