Looking up - Who be you? - The Lunar View Is For All-

I am reminded that my looking up here in Tracy, CA is not the only place where folks are looking up.

Peter Spirius in Germany sent me a link to a German web site about the Pioneer Anomaly and Andrew Nimmo sent me information about upcoming events relating to settling space. [See below.]

If folks are looking up near you, feel free to tell me about it and I can share with the whole lunar-update list.

If you have ideas at to what we should be looking for in the way of developing the Moon or Mars, the Asteroids or the Stars, pass that along too.

I am working on an outline of what we might look for on a Lunar Settlement that might be established after we get back to the Moon.

It is mentioned in books about Lunar Settlements that there is this large swing in temperature should you choose the equatorial regions, those two week days and then two week nights.

Some of you have reminded me that if you select for a lava tube you might find the required protection already built in or if you bring along a Tonka Toy Lunar Excavator you can dig down a bit and find constant temperature under the regolith.

A link for your consideration. See a bit more below.
- LRK -
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http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper1.htm

[This paper is published online in 6 parts, this being the 1st] PRINZTON A Rille-Bottom Settlement for Three Thousand People

FORWARD by Peter Kokh
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Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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This from Peter Spirius over in Germany. - LRK - My German is not that good but was fun guessing at words. :-)
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Hello Larry,

maybe interesting to you or to some of your german readers?

There is an article about the "Pioneer Anomaly" in the internet edition of the mayor german news magazine DER SPIEGEL

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,437267,00.html

Greetings,
Peter

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I asked Andy to let us know when the new web site is active. - LRK - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy-nimmo/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy-nimmo/Webpage2a.htm
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Dear Larry,

In view of your recent remarks on space settlement your readers may be interested to note that the Space Settlers' Society celebrated our 26 th birthday on July 4th this year. Presently we don't have a website, though some ghost sites from the past may still be around, but like the NSS in a few weeks' time we are about to put up what we very much trust will be a growing settlement website. It will be called space-settlers.com as we are in process of forming our own company to fund and make things happen. When the time comes naturally we will be please to put a link from this to the NSS site if they'd be kind enough to reciprocate.

In view of the fact that next year will see the 50th anniversary of Sputnik One and thereby of spaceflight, in co-operation with ASTRA and the Mars Society UK (Scotland) we are presently holding a joint recruitment drive. To this end we have arranged 4 meetings between now and the end of this year which any spacefans in the Glasgow area at the time of any of them will be welcome to attend. These are:

Saturday 30th September - What's in our Solar System by space author Duncan Lunan of ASTRA

Saturday 28th October - How to Get to Space Without Rockets by Andy Nimmo Liftport Ambassador to Scotland

Saturday 25th November - A Future on the Moon by Ed Buckley Scotland's top space artist

Saturday 2nd Deember - Settling Mars
by Graham Dale Co-ordinator The Mars Society UK (Scotland).

All meetings, which will be free of charge, will take place in the premises of the Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS), 11 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow (just round the corner from St. George's Cross underground station) from 1800 to 2000 hours.

It may also be of interest that Graham Dale of the Mars Society and Duncan Lunan, plus the members of the Mars Society Scotland are co-operating in writing a book to be called 'Building the Martian Nation' that will be all about settlement. Indeed, I'll be contributing to this myself in a talk The Economics of Settling Mars from 1500-1700 in the GCVS on Sunday 1 st October.

Best wishes, Andy Nimmo
(President: The Space Settlers' Society).

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http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper1.htm

[This paper is published online in 6 parts, this being the 1st] PRINZTON A Rille-Bottom Settlement for Three Thousand People

FORWARD by Peter Kokh

On our long drive home from the Denver International Space Development Conference in May of 1988, I told some of my fellow Lunar Reclamation Society members about my general idea and what might be possible farther in the future. So this January when the chapter's new think tank, Milwaukee Space Tech(nology) & Rec(reation) - MilSTAR - decided to take Seattle Lunar Group (SLuG)'s Joe Hopkins up on his challenge to enter the NSS 1000-5000 person Lunar Base Design Competition, a rille site became our instant choice. [MilSTAR was later playfully renamed Copernicus Construction Company] http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/page9.htm

At the 1989 International Space Development Conference in Chicago, the Competion winners were announced. We placed second (to an architecture student whose entry did not satisfy the constraints and conditions - but he was an "architecture student"). In our minds, our entry was clearly superior. But we were delighted to receive the second place award, handed us by Hugh Downs.


Part I: THE RILLE AS A SETTLEMENT SITE

Part I previously published in Moon Miners' Manifesto #26 June 1989

by Peter Kokh

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PART I - A Settlement in a Rille Valley
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper1.htm

PART II - Concepts for Rille Architecture
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper2.htm

PART III - Industry & the Three Village System http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper1.htm

PART IV - Village Residential Areas
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper4.htm

PART V - Multiple Energy Systems
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper5.htm

PART VI - The Import-Export Equation
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/rille_paper6.htm

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Peter Kokh - Bio - LRK -
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/bio_pk.htm
Peter Kokh joined NSS, then NSI (National Space Institute) as "Life Member #2" shortly after it was founded by Werner von Braun in 1974. As a result of an L5 Society chapter colonizing effort by members of the Chicago and Minnesota chapters in September 1986, he helped confound the (Milwaukee) Lunar Reclamation Society (L5) that fall. He led the chapter into NSS two months before the L5/NSS merger in 1987.

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http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/space_backgrounds.htm
Space Background & Border Tiles

by Peter Kokh - permission granted to use any of these, no attribution necessary.

Pete's Collected Space Animation Gifs
http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/anispace.htm

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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985lbsa.conf..405H

Title:
Lava tubes - Potential shelters for habitats
Authors:
Horz, F.
Affiliation:
AA(NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX)
Publication: IN:
Lunar bases and space activities of the 21st century (A86-30113 13-14).
Houston, TX, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1985, p. 405-412.
Publication Date:
00/1985
Category:
Lunar and Planetary Exploration
Origin:
STI
NASA/STI Keywords:
LUNAR BASES, SITE SELECTION, SPACE HABITATS, UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES, CAVES, LAVA, RADIATION SHIELDING
Bibliographic Code:
1985lbsa.conf..405H
Abstract
Natural caverns occur on the moon in the form of 'lava tubes', which are the drained conduits of underground lava rivers. The inside dimensions of these tubes measure tens to hundreds of meters, and their roofs are expected to be thicker than 10 meters. Consequently, lava tube interiors offer an environment that is naturally protected from the hazards of radiation and meteorite impact. Further, constant, relatively benign temperatures of -20 C prevail. These are extremely favorable environmental conditions for human activities and industrial operations. Significant operational, technological, and economical benefits might result if a lunar base were constructed inside a lava tube.

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http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/LavaTubes/description_lava_tubes.html
DESCRIPTION:
Lava Tubes and Lava Tube Caves

* Lava Tubes and Lava Tube Caves
* Ape Cave, Mount St. Helens, Washington
* Indian Heaven Volcanic Field, Washington
* Lava River Cave, Oregon
* Mauna Ulu, Kilauea, Hawaii
* Medicine Lake and Lava Beds, California ==============================================================

WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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