About Moon Miners' Manifesto

• MMM is a two decades old tradition that began with issue #1 in December, 1986 as the newsletter of Milwaukee Lunar Reclamation Society L5 (prior to the merger of the former L5 Society and the former National Space Institute.)
• MMM is published ten times a year (except January and July)
• MMM's December 2006 issue, #201, marked our 20th anniversary.
• MMM now serves several other participating NSS chapters across the country, as well as the Moon Society, since issue # 90 in November 1995
• Circulation is international.
• The editor from the beginning has been Peter Kokh [10/2007 photo]

Inspiration Behind MMM - read "M" is for "Mole"

The wellspring of inspiration that continues to fuel MMM articles comes from a personal experience that is described in issue #1

This article may be moonbound!

On March 11, 2004, an illustrated pdf version of this article was uploaded to TransOrbital Corporation's Archive of Personal Messages to fly around the Moon aboard TrailBlazer 1 in a canister designed to survive the eventual impact on the Moon's surface. That vthis mission will ever fly is now in doubt, however.

Content & Themes:

Most issues deal with the opening of the Lunar frontier, suggesting how pioneers can make best use of local resources and learn to make themselves at home. This will involve psychological, social, and physiological adjustment.

Some of the points made will relate specifically to pioneer life in the lunar environment. But much of what will hold for the Moon, will also hold true for Mars and for space in general. We have one Mars theme issue each year, and occasionally other space destinations are discussed: the asteroids, Europa (Jupiter), Titan (Saturn), even the cloud tops of Venus.

The Moon Society Journal:

The four page centerfold section of each issue of Moon Miners' Manifesto is reserved for the use of the Moon Society.

LRS member are free to belong or not to belong to the Moon Society. Local (Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin) members of the Moon Society operate as:

Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost

Submissions to MMM:
[Note: Submissions are not compensated]

• email preferred to
  • Please copy and paste text into the body of the email message or attach an MS Word Document or pdf file.
• typed or printed hardcopy
  [handwritten letters will not be read]
  mailed to
  • MMM, c/o Peter Kokh
  • 1630 N. 32nd Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208
• Copyrights of individual articles remain with the author. Permission to republish is granted to NSS chapters in good standing. Permission is otherwise granted upon request, with the receipt of courtesy copy.
• Submission deadline for the following month is the 20th of each month for expected items, and the 15th of each month for other material.

The MMM Production Team

• Subscription/Circulation Contact/Mailing List:
  • Bob Bialecki
• Printing, collating, folding, stapling, triming, mailing
  • Creative Technology of Sarasota

Back Copies:

We have limited hardcopies of some back issues.
Visit the MMM Classics archive for materials from issues #1-190 available in pdf format, one file per production year, for the first 18 years.

Subscriptions to MMM can be

• A membership benefit in the Moon Society or in the participating NSS chapters, according to their respective dues. These groups are given discounted rates, and other NSS chapters as well as non-NSS societies with a compatible focus are welcome to share our newsletter. Address inquiries to the editor.

Direct individual & library subscriptions (hardcopy only): $12 annually

Make payable to "Lunar Reclamation Society"
Mail to: "LRS"
P.O. Box 2102
Milwaukee, WI 53201-2102

Subscriptions to PDF electronic copies of MMM

We began producing pdf versions of MMM with the May 2001 Moon Miners' REVIEW issue.

They are only available to Moon Society members on a special password accessed web page

If you are a member of another chapter, or of a non-NSS organization with a compatible focus, and would like to receive MMM as a membership benefit, have your officers contact us.

MMM Family of National Space Society Chapters:

MMM is a membership benefit for members of the Moon Society, as well as for members of the following participating chapters of the National Space Society:

• Lunar Reclamation Society (Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin), publishers
• Chicago Space Frontier L5 (IL)
• Minnesota Space Frontier Society (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
• Oregon L5 Society (Portland)
• O.A.S.I.S. - Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement (Los Angeles, CA)
• P.A.S.A. - Philadelphia Area Space Alliance (PA)
• Front Range L5 Society - (Denver, CO)
• Sheboygan Space Society (WI)

MMM CLASSICS PROJECT: we have begun a new publishing venture, in pdf format only -- republishing the classic articles from the first seventeen years, December 1986 to November 2003 Volumes 1-17 are now online.

MMM GLOSSARY: Definitions of old words given special meaning in MMM and of some new words, coined by MMM where no existing word would do.

MMM ONLINE SUBJECT INDEX: based on a specific list of keyword-Metatags

Papers online that combine MMM articles by specific topic and which will give you a good taste and feel for what MMM is all about.

Phone Inquiries: 414-342-0705 7am-10pm Central Time [voice mail available]

Email Inquiries & submission: kokhmmm@aol.com

Mail Inquiries & Submissions: "MMM", 1630 N. 32nd Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208