If we knew then what we knew afterward: What would have made for a better Apollo Module?

All the Apollo missions landed shortly after local sunrise and left well before local noon

Meton noticed that the Moon’s phases returned to the same dates of the year after 19 years

The Replogle globes of Earth and Moon alike are divided into 15 degree longitudinal segments.

This definition of month would seem irrelevant to anyone living on the Farside from which Earth was never visible

A new environment, the middoors, has become familiar to most of us in the form of the enclosed, climate-controlled streets and plazas

The first impression anyone will have of a Lunar Settlement will be that of a complex of mounds

A few weeks ago I took in an unusual concert: the Northern Illinois University (De Kalb) Steel Drum Band, largest and oldest in the country, was playing at the UWM Union (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee). I went to get a fore taste of “Moon Music”. Humor me a bit with these assumptions. Musical instruments […]

[The second in a series of articles on the need to predevelop the SOFTWARE for a Lunar Civilization] I remember as a young man too many years ago [1955] my first time in Hudson Bay Company (yes, the original Canadian Trading Co.) department store in Calgary Alberta. How impressed I was by the great variety […]

One settlement a world does not make! Of course one must start with a single site, and it will be able to serve most of the initial needs. But…