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The American
Lunar Society
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The
American Lunar
Society is a group
dedicated to the continued study of Earth's Moon. This is
accomplished through both continued observation and
attention to current research. Our goals also include the
education of our youth through age-specific projects.
ALS created the Lunar Study
and Observing Certificate program
which
is now cosponsored by the Moon
Society
2005.12.15 - ALS'
quarterly publication
Selenology
is now available to Moon Society
Members in pdf format in
the Members-Only area. In turn, ALS members will now have
access to the Moon
Miners' Manifesto
Archives.
Members
of each
society are welcome to
participate in the other organization's projects.
new
- eSelenology
- the Online Journal of
the American Lunar Society
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The
Artemis Project
Artemis Society International
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The
Artemis
Project is a privately
financed
commercial venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting manned
lunar base.
Artemis
Society International
leads the non-profit element of the
Artemis Project. ASI is an educational and scientific foundation set up
to develop the Artemis Project, as a meeting ground for those helping
to make it happen.
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Canadian Lunar Research Network
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The
Canadian
Lunar Research Network
is a a new organization of Canadian scientists, engineers, and
entrepreneurs from all across Canada. Our goal is to promote lunar
research, foster collaboration among Canadian researchers and
international partners, and extend our enthusiasm of lunar exploration
to the general public.
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Clavius Moonbase
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Clavius Moonbase
is an organization of amateurs and professionals devoted to the Apollo
program and its manned exploration of the moon. Our special mission is
to debunk the so-called conspiracy theories that state such a landing
may never have occurred.
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The Google Lunar X-Prize
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The Google Lunar X-Prize
is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to
send a robot to the Moon, travel
500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth.
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International Lunar Observatory Association
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The
International Lunar Observatory Association
is a Hawaii-based non-profit organization dedicated to expanding human
knowledge of the Cosmos through observation from the Moon, via its ILO
Precursor, ILO Polar and ILO Human Service missions.
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The
Lunar Reclamation Society, Inc.
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The
Lunar Reclamation Society, Inc.
, is an independent, non-profit, membership organization promoting "the
expansion of the human economy through off-planet resources." Our
stated purposes include, but are not limited to, those of the National
Space Society, with whom we are freely associated for networking
purposes, serving as its Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin chapter. Our focus
is on the Moon: The group that gathered to organize the chapter in
September of 1986 had diverse interests in space and different
individual dreams as to what aspect of the space frontier they would
each like to personally pioneer. But we all seemed to agree that an
outpost on the Moon must come first as a gateway to everything else.
Our activities center on production of our newsletter, Moon Miners'
Manifesto, public outreach, and modest experiments with technologies
needed on the lunar frontier.
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The
Lunar
Research
Institute
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The
Lunar Research
Institute
The Lunar Research Institute is a non-profit, tax-exempt
corporation devoted to the exploration and utilization of
the Moon for the benefit of Humankind. LRI had its
beginnings with the innovative mission, Lunar Prospector,
which produced by far the most in-depth scientific data of
the Moon to date.
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The
Lunar National Agricultural Experiment
Corporation
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The
Lunar National Agricultural Experiment
Corporation
is a
nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation devoted to the development
of agricultural techniques and methodologies that are aimed
at making a lunar settlement self-sustaining in food
production. In pursuit of these goals, LUNAX devises simple
experiments that can be done by secondary school students
under supervision, to yield data that will aid college level
investigators to design workable procedures. LUNAX formed as
a spin-off of the Milwaukee Lunar Reclamation Society in
1991. After a hiatus of some 15 years, LUNAX is again active with new
experiments and a Discussion Forum, centered at the College of the Menominee Nation -
Green Bay Campus, a Moon Society Campus Chapter
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The Lunar Explorers Society
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The
Lunar Explorers Society
is an international space advocacy organization that aims to promote
the exploration of the Moon for the benefit of humanity.
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Moon
Miners' Manifesto
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Moon
Miners' Manifesto
is a monthly newsletter, published continuously since December 1986, by
the Lunar Reclamation Society, which serves as the SE Wisconsin Chapter
of the National Space
Society. MMM serves several other NSS chapters, the members of Artemis
Society International,and members
of the Moon Society, and other space chapters.Most issues of MMM
contain speculative articles that deal with the opening of the Lunar
frontier,suggesting how pioneers can make best use of local resources.
Some of
the points made will relate specifically to pioneer life in the lunar
environment.
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The
Moon Society
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The
Moon
Society
is an international
non-profit educational and scientific foundation formed to further
scientific study and development of the moon. and, in August 2000,
assumed the membership and membership services of Artemis
Society
International.
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The
Moon Society Forum
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The
Moon
Society Forum
is community for open discussion of Moon-related topics. number of Moon
Society Project Teams have discussion areas on the Forum
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OpenLuna.org
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to return mankind to the lunar surface, and to do it in such a way that
it is accessible to everyone. Our research will be open source and one
of our specific aims is to reach out to the community and educational
systems to spread interest, enthusiasm, and involvement.
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The Oregon L5
Society
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The
Oregon L5
Society
is a
chapter of the National Space Society. Its Lunar Base
Research Team
ran the
Oregon Moonbase Simulations project at a pair of lava tubes
outside Bend, Oregon in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
[1993
Article]
LBRT
continues to be prolific, producing high quality
research
papers
for
various conferences. ORL5 has partnered with Artemis Society
International and the Moon Society since 1995.
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Space
Age Publishing
Company
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Space
Age Publishing
Company,
publisher of Lunar
Enterprise Daily
and Space
Calendar
weekly, operates
offices on Hawai'i Island, Hawaii (1988), and in Palo Alto,
California (1977), USA, and pursues a business plan for its
third office on the Moon. With
its
Lunar
Enterprise
Corporation
subsidiary,
Space Age
advances and supports a wide variety of scientific,
commercial and international lunar activities and
enterprises &endash; such as
the
International
Lunar
Observatory
&endash;
consistent
with a human return to the Moon within the decade. Space Age
also promotes Hawaii Space
Tours, Stanford
on the
Moon
and
the Ad Astra
Kansas
initiatives
-- To
The Stars.
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The
Space Settlement Initative
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The government
cannot afford to spend the billions of dollars it will take to go back
to the Moon to stay. Therefore, the capitalization will have to be
raised from private enterprise, and the only way to interest investors
in privately funded space development is to offer the possibility of a
really huge profit if they succeed. The most potentially valuable asset
on the Moon (and Mars) is the land itself, as real estate.
The
Space Settlement Initiative explains how
that huge potential value could be put to use, right now, as a powerful
incentive for private investment in developing safe, reliable,
affordable space transport.
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The Space
Renaissance Initiative
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The Space Renaissance Initiative
is a new, global philosophy, having its basic ground on Earth,
and its natural development in extraterrestrial space. SRI looks at the
past Renaissance (1500) as an inspiration for patronage and
capability
to aim high, and to make great projects by means of good will and
mutual cooperation. SRI has activists from on every continent and on
most social networks. The Moon Society has endorsed the SRI. Read the Space Renaissance Manifesto
(pdf)
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Space Resources Roundtable
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The
Space Resouces Roundtable
joins individuals from the space exploration community, the financial
sector, and mining and minerals industries, the SRR seeks to bring
together interested parties to discuss issues related to the In-Situ
Resource Utilization (ISRU) of lunar, asteroidal and martian resources.
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Trans Lunar Research
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Trans
Lunar Research
is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation founded in
1996. TLR's primary goal is to set up the first manned Lunar Station on
the surface of the Moon. The "cheap" hardware required to
achieve this goal is under development in-house at Trans Lunar Research
and at various locations around the world. Providing cash grants to
selected organizations, TLR functions as a private space agency
supporting space technology development. Trans Lunar Research
believes that in order to make space attractive to the
masses, it is imperative that humans not only colonize, but
also industrialize space. For this reason we are promoting the
development of deep space survival hardware such as more efficient
rocket propulsion systems, lightweight radiation protection, Lunar and
planetary oxygen extraction equipment, Moon and space-based energy
production stations, and other technologies that will allow people to
live self-sufficiently in space. These technologies will provide the
preliminary infrastructure required to make space a commercially viable
and profitable industrial zone. Once space becomes a profitable place
to do business, it will attract the masses.
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