Howdy everyone! Things are finally starting to gel for Moon Day, and we finally have the splash and the event details up at the Frontiers of Flight Museum website. As with any sophomore effort, it has been rough, and there have been some big fails along the way, but it … Continue reading
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
EVA Interviews Team “Next Giant Leap” in the Google Lunar X Prize Competition
Welcome to the third in this series of Lunar Editions of EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Ageâ„¢. To start this series, EVA went directly to the source and interviewed the Moon about its expectations for future lunar commercial activities. Coming back down to Earth, the second interview focused on the organization whose … Continue reading
Scholarships for Space Studies
Ah, your Lunar Librarian can well recall his student years, hitting the books and starving more often than not in the pursuit of knowledge. Ramen noodles, rice & beans, ravioli. I seemed to have a very R-rich diet. So that you won’t have to suffer as I did in my … Continue reading
EVA Interviews The Moon
Welcome to this next, unique edition of EVA Interviews: The Business of the New Space Ageâ„¢. This conversation started on a cold winter day in January over 2 years ago. A friend of mine at NASA asked me to look over a matrix he was creating on commercial lunar opportunities. … Continue reading
EVA Interviews Paul Eckert about the Space Investment Summits
Welcome to the next edition of EVA Interviews: The Business of the New Space Ageâ„¢ with our guest Paul Eckert Ph.D. – Coordinator of the Space Investment Summit Coalition, and International & Commercial Strategist for the Space Exploration division of The Boeing Company. Paul and his colleagues at the Space … Continue reading
EVA Reviews Richard Branson’s “Business Stripped Bare”
Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur Richard Branson, as you might guess, is on my list of people who I would love to interview for EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Ageâ„¢. I haven’t yet asked him to be my guest as I have a few … Continue reading
EVA Interviews Guillermo Söhnlein
Welcome to the second edition of EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Age! Our next guest is Guillermo Söhnlein, founder of both the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs and Space Angels Network. One of the major challenges facing Space entrepreneurs and startups is finding adequate investment seed capital, the early-stage funds needed to … Continue reading
For Anyone (still) Quizzical
What about the format? Why do you ask some of the same questions each time? In all cases, we are very interested in the answers and opinions that our guest provides and hope you, the reader, are too. In the future, we plan to examine some of these regularly asked questions … Continue reading
For Anyone Quizzical – 5
What are the links in the interviews for? When there is additional information that we believe you might find interesting or useful, we will provide an appropriate link. Visit it if you are curious, ignore them otherwise. We understand there is some controversy about how links should open – redirect … Continue reading
For Anyone Quizzical – 4
What’s with all the jargon? Just as the Space industry uses acronyms and jargon with high frequency, so does the financial sector.  To bridge this language gap, when EVA or her guests introduce terms in the interviews that readers might be unfamiliar with (and even some most ARE familiar with), we will add … Continue reading
JAT&D – JARGON, ACRONYMS, TERMS and their DEFINITIONS
JARGON, ACRONYMS, TERMS and their DEFINITIONS As EVA or her guests use these in our conversations, we will add them to our list here: FINANCIAL: EVA = Economic Value Added = After-tax profit that exceeds the required minimum return on capital. Computed by deducting the cost of capital (both … Continue reading
Some Upcoming Space Award & Opportunity Deadlines
January 7th – Passed Final Entry Due for NASA’s 50th Anniversary Essay Competition Part of NASA’s mission is to inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and explorers. Our hope is that the essay competition will inspire and encourage middle school students to continue with science and engineering in high … Continue reading
NASA Academy 2009 Accepting Applications
The NASA Academy is a phenomenal program created by Dr. Gerald Soffen in 1993 to emulate the ISU model and help train promising up-and-coming scientists for future leadership at NASA. Participants work in the labs side-by-side with NASA PIs on all kinds of wild projects. At Goddard these were usually … Continue reading
An almost Epic Succeed
Once again the NSS of North Texas Santa Space Toy Drive was a great success! This was our fourth year working on this project, and it’s an idea that I hope will spread. The essence of it is that our NSS chapter collects space-themed toys, and donates them en masse … Continue reading
Server Service Warning for OotC
Attention all readers – I have just been informed that my web host will be doing an upgrade on my server box. This will be Tuesday, December 9th at 11:00 pm MST, for, it is estimated, 1-2 hours. I’m happy to report that the website will be unavailable at that … Continue reading
Best of the Moon 2008
Wherein your friendly Lunar Librarian looks at the best additions to the Lunar Library for 2008 and chooses the best of the best in each category. This year the catch phrase is “value”. In a tight economy every ounce of value needs to be squeezed out of each dollar spent. … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving
I apologize for the light level of posting of late. I’ve got a lot of things in the queue (and a full load at work), but none are quite ready: 1) Best of the Moon 2008, slated for publication on December 1st (or thereabouts). You can always visit Best of … Continue reading
Creative brilliance
Librarian’s Note: A very lucky colleague of mine at work got an invite for an up close look at the LHC, and he says it is a really impressive technological achievement. And to think that we could have had a super-conducting super-collider right here in the U.S. of A. Mad … Continue reading
Teacher Tools for the High Frontier: Big Moon edition
Howdy all! Your friendly Lunar Librarian is back, this time to share some of the many educational support materials that are to be found in the Lunar Library. Teachers have a tough job, made more difficult by the fact that many communities chronically underfund and overburden the teachers. Homeschoolers also … Continue reading
Summer Space Reading Camp Pt. II: The Old Moon
Image Credit: Berthold Tiedemann, from Peter and the Moon Trip by Hazel Corson -The New Moon: relatively newer (and available) titles to directly appeal to today’s youth -The Old Moon: classics from another time -The New High Frontier: newer tales of the exploration of the Solar system -The Old High … Continue reading
Summer Space Reading Camp Pt. I: The New Moon
The New Moon is that time of the month when the Moon is passing close by the Sun in its endless circling of the Earth, making it very difficult to see, and it often goes unnoticed during that particular time of the month. A not inapt metaphor for the topic … Continue reading
A Challenging but Rewarding Lunar Project
“Lunar Challenge“, published by EdNovations in 2004, it weighs in at several pounds of resources. I’ve got to admit, this is probably the most challenging review I’ve done to date, as there was a lot to cover. “Lunar Challenge” was developed in response to the President’s Vision for Space Exploration … Continue reading
Carnival of Space #61 is a blast!
Mang’s Bat page hosts a special Tunguska edition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the event. Another great round-up of space stories for this week’s Carnival of Space.
Update on space manga and anime
Regular readers know that I’m something of a fan of Japanese comics, called manga in comic form and anime in cartoon form, but only of the stuff that deals with quasi-realistic near-Earth, near-future stories. They are few and far between in DVD and book releases, but they are out there.