By: Peter Garretson and Abigail Koch From the Space Policy Review “This paper recommends that Congress encourageand support a commercial demonstration of asteroid capture and resource harvesting as a critical element of U.S. national security and economic development strategy.” https://www.afpc.org/uploads/documents/FINAL_FINAL_The_World_Is_Not_Enough-_Space_Policies_to_Ignite_Space_Mining.pdf
A big thank you to all who participated in the conference, and most of all to the presenters who provided a broad overview of current ideas and efforts towards developing the Moon, as well as key insights of well presented deep knowledge within the topic. As most of you probably are aware, the recordings from … Read more
First time published on the Internet: Greg Bennett’s original article in Analog Magazine describing the Artemis Project, a plan developed in the 1990s for a commercial moon base as well as a description of the mission architecture and funding methods for the project. This new version of the article includes new modern renderings created by … Read more
Official Position Paper of the Moon Society Updated February 2018 Summary In response to the President’s new space exploration initiative laying out a plan to Return to the Moon in Preparation for Manned Exploration of Mars, it is important to be clear about just why we should return to the Moon, and how we should … Read more
[Discussion Forum ]by Peter Kokh, President and Dr. Peter Schubert, Director- Draft 3/27/2008 AIM: Adopting A PROJECT ORGANIZING FOCUS for the Moon Society that gives us a prominent profile as “the People who ____” INTRODUCTION: This document, in the present state, is for internal use of the Moon Society Leadership.On September 12, 2008, this document … Read more