Let’s ask the pointed question: should the chapter be a “narrow tent” or a wide one?

Thanks to Jim Lovell’s recent book, “Lost Moon”, and to Ron Howard’s well-received movie dramatization of the “Apollo 13” mission, we begin to suspect we may have been overlooking other opportunities that the inexorable march of time presents.

Those of you who have not yet seen the new Ron Howard movie, Apollo 13, with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris, go see it. It is great! The movie faithfully follows Jim Lovell’s book Lost Moon and is thoroughly factual. Even though you know the outcome, it keeps you on the […]

For all these nine manned missions to the Moon accomplished, six of them landing, so many really basic things were left undone

Many of us space advocates are all too painfully aware that our own ‘premature’ birthdates and mortality conspire against our ever participating in the actual unfolding drama of the realization of a space frontier. Others are unwilling to admit such a possibility and have deep held hopes of personally blazing the trail. Whatever our personal […]

Since the slow rhythm of sunrise and sunset cannot be ignored on the Moon, the calendar should be organized around it.

In her recent article in the first issue of Moon Miner’s REVUE: “Some Preliminary Considerations for Lunar Agriculture”, MLRS member Louise Rachel brought up the topic of animal life. Red worms in composting trays; honey bees and nectar sipping bats for pollination duty, honey, and guano; fish and chickens were mentioned as early contributors to […]

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