Recent Headlines:
John Lennon Honored With "Peace Crater"
A Beatle on the Moon: musician and
activist John Lennon has been honored with the designation of a
"Peace Crater" in the lunar Lake Of Dreams.
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BULLETIN: Water Found On Moon
NASA and ISRO have confirmed the
discovery of water on the Moon, a finding that will help
fast-track the exploration, settlement and development of Luna.
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Honorary Crater Designated For Legendary Entertainer Michael
Jackson
The Luna Society's
governing board has voted unanimously to designate a crater to
honor the "King Of Pop," Michael Jackson, who was also a
prominent Lunar property owner and space enthusiast.
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Lunar Society Releases New Tract On Moon
Latest Sea Of Clouds tract, which
encompasses 4,000 acres, has been provisionally zoned for
tourism, scientific industrial and commercial industrial use.
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Moon Advocates On NASA 'Prize' Scheme:
"Ridiculous"
A plan by NASA to pay prize money to
private aerospace developers for their accomplishments has drawn
immediate derision from the director of an international space
advocacy group.
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Lunar Embassy German "Ambassador" Raided In Fraud Inquiry
Former East German Army Officer
declares his Moon property deeds are a novelty, "simply an
unusual gift."
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Moon Advocates Say Private Rocket Flight Is Not Enough
The head of the Luna Society advocacy group says that Monday's planned launch of the
world's first commercial manned space vehicle is "exciting and
interesting," but it isn't enough.
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Moon Over Ohio: Residents Claimed Lunar Ownership In
1966
Thirty-five residents of a small Ohio
town signed a "Declaration of Lunar Ownership" in 1966 ... and
have the paperwork to prove it.
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PTI English Service: Property On The Moon
The Press Trust of India reports on
the low cost of lunar land.
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Advocacy Group Says Bush Space Plan ‘Doomed From The Start’
International organization points to
U.S. deficit, economy as key factors that will stop plan from
leaving launch pad.
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Fugitive Lunar Embassy Operator Arrested
Canadian franchisee, wanted on fraud
charges, arrested in Nevada mall; had gambled with "moon owner"
Dennis Hope in Las Vegas prior to disappearance.
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UPDATE:
Moonland Registry operator sentenced to two years in prison for
fraud...
Commercial Lunar Project
Seeks Alliance With India, Russia
Backers of HarvardSpace-led Kennedy
II Lunar Project make overtures to widen scope of international
Moon exploration mission.
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Report: Bush May Announce U.S. Return To Moon
Policy shift may be reaction to
recent Chinese space activities and proposed commercial venture
involving Russia and India; funding for NASA project may be
uncertain.
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UPDATE:
Luna Society offers
alternative to Bush Space Plan...
Rob Kall: How does 'Walmartian' sound? 'Hallunaburton'?
Ellen DeGeneres Outed ... As Moon Property Owner
Popular comedian, "Finding Nemo"
star, announces that she owns Sea of Tranquility lunar real
estate.
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Commercial Lunar Mission Announces
$3.5-Billion Funding Agreement
Kennedy II Project alliance with Luna Society
advocacy group expected to fulfill plan
for Moon landing within ten years.
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Reporter's Notebook: From the World Wide Web to the Moon
I got back from vacation and spent what felt like ages cleansing
my inbox of genuinely disgusting e-junk. Thank goodness, amid
the filth was one glittering gem: "You can buy land on the
moon!"
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India Man Takes Risk, Buys Five Acres On Moon
The Deccan Chronicle (India) tells of a man who has ventured
Rs1400 on a chance to go to the Moon.
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European Space Agency's First Lunar
Mission Heads Toward Moon, Slowly
More than 30 years after the
Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon's surface, a European
space probe was launched on 27 September to investigate its
far side in a mission that could finally answer questions
about the origin of Earth's closest neighbor.
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ESA Project Scientist: Moon
Colonies "Possible" Within 20 Years
The European Space Agency's Bernard
Foing says that human settlement of the Moon will be
technologically possible within two decades — if political
roadblocks are cleared.
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Debate Rages On Lunar Land Sales
Meanwhile, sales figures grow as
customers, space law experts, debate extraterrestrial property
rights
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India's Prime Minister Announces Mission To Moon
Launch of Indian Space Research
Organization unmanned exploratory craft expected by 2008.
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IAU Delays Columbia Crater Decision
The International Astronomical Union
will delay naming Lunar craters after the fallen Space Shuttle
Columbia crew until 2006, but chooses to name seven asteroids in
their honor.
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Rudolf Hoelker, Space
Flight Scientist, Dies
Rudolf Franz Hoelker, who was among
the scientists who in 1945 accompanied Wernher von Braun from
Germany to the United States, has died.
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Message Of Condolence For
Space Shuttle Columbia Crew
The citizens and partners of
the Luna Society extend their sincerest condolences
and sympathy to the families of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(STS 107) crew, which was lost on 1 February 2003.
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Proposal To Designate Craters In Honor Of The
Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Members
A working committee from the Luna Society
has been put in place to submit a
proposal to the International Astronomical Union regarding the
designation of a group of craters on the Moon that shall be
renamed to honor the seven Space Shuttle Columbia crew members
who perished in the 1 February 2003 tragedy.
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IAU Removes Designation Of Crater Named For Accused Nazi War
Criminal
An inquiry initiated by an agency
of the Luna Society has led the International
Astronomical Union to unanimously remove the designation of
Crater Eppinger, named for a Czech physician charged with the
torture deaths of gypsy prisoners during World War II.
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Moon's Heart Melted, Say Lunar Love Numbers
Love numbers -- measures of
how much a planet's surface and interior move in response to the
gravitational pull of nearby bodies -- may indicate that the
Moon has something like a molten slush surrounding its core.
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Researchers Identify Moon-Forming
Impact
The results of new research
have led to an advanced theory of how a "giant impact" involving a
Mars-sized object slamming into Earth helped form the Moon and
set both bodies into motion.
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NASA Awards Mars Scout
Study Grant;
May Have Implications On Lunar Exploration
A UCLA-led team, including TRW
and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will help refine the
concept for a mission to Mars that will deploy a series of small
robotic science probes on the planet.
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Official Response To Lunar Embassy
Text of the Luna Society's
official response to the Lunar Embassy regarding comments made
by "Doctor" Dennis M. Hope.
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