Lunar Settlement - Search For Materials - How To Pay For -

Accepted Al Globus offer to join the national space society (NSS) space settlement advocacy committee to help find materials about establishing a Lunar Settlement and to add content for their Moon web site.

Was looking for information on the Internet about "Lunar Settlements" and find a lot of offers to sell you Lunar Plots right now, not after you get their and stake your claim.

Some say that your money will go into a fund to provide resources to get you to the Moon. I am just worried that my computer junk e-mail will increase because of where I have been. This is a nice looking piece of paper with legal sounding words. I have a bridge I would like to sell as well. :-) http://www.lunarsettlement.org/

The topic of how will you pay for launching to the Moon is a valid one though. Hopefully when I read again the books I have, I'll be better prepared to talk about costing. For now I will just look for material that you can use and might be useful for the NSS Moon site.

While I am putting GOOGLE to the test you can be looking at the on-line NASA books that have been scanned and relate to space settlements. Will be re-reading them myself. They are found on the Space Settlements web site which you may already be familiar with.
- LRK -
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http://www.belmont.k12.ca.us/ralston/programs/itech/SpaceSettlement/index.html
or at
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
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Shall we design a Lunar Colony or Lunar Settlement that you could call home?
What would you need to seal a lava tube?

How deep would you need to dig to get a nice even temperature during lunar days and lunar nights?

Any ideas for windows that darken to Solar flare activity or high energy bursts from space?

How would you use the powdered regolith fines that you track in?

What might you distil with your backroom solar reflector?

Have you read Robert A. Heinlein's, "THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS"?
- LRK -
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http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Harsh-Mistress-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0312863551/
Amazon.com
Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of dissidents, including a one-armed computer jock, a radical young woman, a past-his-prime academic and a nearly omnipotent computer named Mike, ignite the fires of revolution despite the near certainty of failure and death. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
"We proceed down a path marked by his ideas." --Tom Clancy

[NOTE: There are a number of longer reviews at the above Amazon.com link. - LRK -]
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If we can't design a Lunar Settlement, maybe we just need to make one up.
Some of you are working on that, YES, ???

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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David Schrunk said that he and the co-authors of "THE MOON - Resources, Future Development and Colonization" are coming out with a revised version next year.
- LRK -
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Resources-Development-Colonization-Exploration/dp/0387360557/ Paperback $34.95 but cheaper if you pre-order.

Looks like the earlier versions are going as collectors items for some rather high prices.
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Development-Colonization-Wiley-Praxis-Technology/dp/0471976350 $255.49 I paid $64.95 back in April 2001 for the hardcover version.

At least you can take a look inside here.
- LRK -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0471976350/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-4543509-3319235#reader-link
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Another good reference book.
- LRK -
The Lunar Base Handbook (Space Technology Series) (Paperback) by Peter Eckart (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Lunar-Base-Handbook-Space-Technology/dp/0072401710/

Also his "SPACEFLIGHT LIFE SUPPORT AND BIOSPHERICS"
- LRK -
Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics (Space Technology Library, V. 5)
(Paperback)
by Peter Eckart (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Spaceflight-Support-Biospherics-Technology-Library/dp/1881883043/

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Two other books I'll be looking at again, and have mentioned in years past, are excellent resources too. I have had them since 1999 and the engineers at Ames kept borrowing mine. :-(
- LRK -

Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd edition (Space Technology Library) (Space Technology Library) (Paperback) (ISBN 1-881883-10-8) by Wiley J. Larson (Editor), James R. Wertz (Editor) $54.75
http://www.amazon.com/Mission-Analysis-Design-Technology-Library/dp/1881883108/

Human Spaceflight: Mission Analysis and Design (Space Technology Series) (Space Technology Series) (Paperback) (ISBN 0-07-236811-X) by Wiley J. Larson (Author), Linda K. Pranke (Author) $49.16 "Human spaceflight, or human space missions, include any space missions with humans as passengers or as on-board, active participants in spacecraft control or science..."
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Spaceflight-Mission-Analysis-Technology/dp/007236811X/

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

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