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Current
Active Projects
- Publishing and ever
improving our monthly newsletter, Moon
Miners' Manifesto which also serves several
NSS Chapters, The Moon Society, and individual
subscribers worldwide
- Optimizing
Moon Miners'
Manifesto / Moon Society Journal for Moon
Society members
- Archiving
Moon Miners'
Manifesto in the
MMM Classics Project - currently all the
non-time-sensitive material from the first 15 years
are now archived in this way in 15 PDF files, one per
issue year. The plan is to add two more years in July
2007, then every January add one more year. This plan
will exclude the three most current years. The
MMM Classics files are freely downloadable by
anyone.
- Update 04/12/2007
LRS member from Green
Bay, David Dunlop (now Moon Society Driector of
Project Development), and LRS President Peter
Kokh (now also President of the Moon Society)
have been working on a major project to oranize and
encourage critical research by students and private
enterprise of immature or undeveloped technologies not
being advanced by NASA for whatever reasons.
"The
Univeristy of Luna Project" it is on the verge
of becoming a reality, headed for an ISDC 2007 debut
in Dallas, Memorial Day Weeked, 2007. This will be a
non-profit corporation with its own set of officers
and directors, abd seeking many sponsor partners.
- Providing
speakers on
space topics for schools and group meetings
- Conducting
space topic brainstorming Mission
Control™
Workshops
- Seeking
opportunities for our
information tables &
space displays
- Support for Oregon L5's
"Lunar Lavatube
Locator" project
- Additions to our
"Lunar Homestead
Exhibit", a traveling collection of
exhibits illustrating early pioneer life
- Expanding
our presence on the
Web
- Making our newsletter,
MMM,
available as a PDF file to members of the
Moon Society
- Hosting a "Space
Chapters Resources Hub" on the
web.
- More Lunar-Appropriate
Art Media Projects
Projects on the
drawing boards
- An Online Subject Index for back issues of
Moon Miners' Manifesto
- A Glossary of
"MMM-speak" for Moon Miners' Manifesto
- An
"Economic
Geography of the
Solar System" textbook binder
- Publishing
other
products (an Earth Flag, a Lunar Calendar,
space frontier wall murals, Moon/Mars Base model kits,
etc.)
- Venture
Capital Fund for
"Spin Up" entrepreneurial startup
assistance
Currently Inactive
Projects
- Science Programming at
Milwaukee's Fall "First Contact" Science Fiction
Convention, of which we were one of two co-founding
organizations in 1994. First Contact VI in 1999 was
the end of the Road, ceasing operations because of
declining membership. We fielded exhibits at JVL-Con
in Janesville Holloween weekend, 1999.
- Copernicus Construction
Company, our informal
brainstorming "Define & Design" activity group -
has been inactive because of too few participants to
make a critical mass
- Support for
Wisconsin Space Business
Roundtable [currently
inactive]
- Participation in the
"Rockets for Schools" spring
suborbital launch
event in Sheboygan. This great event was
cancelled for 2000, but was revived "under new
management" for 2001. However, partly because the
event is usually scheduled for the day of our chapter
meeting, partly because of transportation issues, we
have not been participating in recent years.
Completed
Projects
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