Gateway To The Moon - at LPI web site - Find it if you can

Yesterday I went to the Lunar and Planetary Institute web site and was looking at documents about going to the Moon.

Today I couldn't find what I was looking at by going to their home page.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/

or by looking at the Site map.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sitemap/

Even GOOGLE was not a lot of help at first because it found where the document was referenced in a lot of other documents.

I was looking for a document published back in 1965.
"NASA 1965 Summer Conference on Lunar Exploration and Science (NASA SP-88)".
[16 meg PDF file]

After looking at a lot of links that GOOGLE found for me, I finally spied a link at LPI. The document I was reading was listed at the very bottom of the page. The file seemed to take forever to download from the NTRS external web site. - LRK -
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http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/documents.shtml

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660005537_1966005537
pdf [16 meg PDF file]
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Here is 420 pages that, among other things, talks about plans for AES, the Apollo Extension System - A more versatile phase of the early Apollo missions which permits longer stay times, greater exploration capabilities, that would operate in the 1970-1974 time period.

Well it didn't all happen we know, but interesting to see what they were considering. All this before the Clementine mission and the Lunar Prospector mission. Will have to see how much gets done when we go back to the Moon.
- LRK -


That still didn't answer how to find these documents if you come in the front door to the LPI web site.

Sometimes you can shorten a URL and if security is not too tight you find more information about the parent directory.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/

How nice, "GATEWAY TO THE MOON" with an interesting list of items in the navigation column on the left. There is the "DOCUMMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS"
link I had been at along with other interesting items about LUNA.

Back to the "Site Map" http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sitemap/ and a look for "Gateway to the Moon".

Found it right there in plain view under the main heading of "Science"
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/science.shtml and the sub topic of "Research Foci".

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Research Foci

o Gateway to the Moon
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/
Resources and meeting information for development of the new exploration strategy for the Moon in response to the President's new vision for NASA

o Oxygen in the Solar System
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/oxygen/
Initiative aimed at better understanding how oxygen isotopic and chemical variations were established in the solar system

o Forum on the Impact Cratering Process http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/impacts/index.shtml
Resources and information about the impact cratering process
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So there you go, a list of documents and publications dating back to 1965.
Forty years of talking about going to the Moon. Well we went in 1969. That was a start. Too bad we didn't finish all the tasks that were discussed.

Now while we are talking again about such things I hope we go back with the idea of making our presence in space a permanent thing.
http://www.permanent.com/ :-)



Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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With persistence and a few time outs - a look at what we would like to see accomplished by those following, should there be those to follow.

Down near the bottom of
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/documents.shtml
for 1972. - LRK -
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Post-Apollo Lunar Science; Report of a Study by the Lunar Science Institute.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/documents/PostApollo.pdf
[114 page, PDF file 4.3 MB]

[Recommendations for post-Apollo lunar science activities by many of the participants that planned and executed the Apollo lunar surface science investigations.]

POST-APOLLO LUNAR SCIENCE

Preface

As the end of the Apollo lunar missions approaches, there is much concern for the continued development of the lunar sciences. It is most important that the limited sums available be spent wisely, if the huge investment in Apollo is to reap the scientific return that is still largely latent in the photographs, the telemetry tapes, and the returned samples.

Accordingly, the Lunar Science Institute assembled at the University of California, San Diego a group representing the various lunar sciences for the week of July 10, 1972 to examine the post-Apollo situation. This Report is the result of that brief Summer Study.

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

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