Moon Base Alpha
EXTENDED MISSION 

• Tour the Johnson Space Center Lunar Rock Curatorial Facility
• Roam the Artemis Moonbase in Virtual Reality
• Take a quiz about Space Tourism
• Take a Quiz to see how much you know about the moon!
• Participate in the Should We Return to the Moon? A World Wide Web Public Policy Forum
• Check out what people think about commercial development on the moon at Scientific American
• See some Moon Base designs from "Moon Base Alpha" the science fiction website
• Download the opening video clip from Space 1999: Moonbase Alpha 
• Design and build models of life support systems for a settlement on the Moon
• Problems in Space Activity

Imagine that you are part of a space exploration mission flying from a space station orbiting the Moon to a base on the Moon and you crash... 
• Exploring the Moon Activities from NASA
• Build a model of the Apollo Comand Module or Lunar Lander.
• Get BioBLAST (Better Learning through Adventure, Simulation and Telecommunications) - The multimedia cd-rom for high school biology students. Based on NASA's Advanced Life Support research, the program offers students hands-on laboratory investigations, computer simulations and internet-based telecommunication resources to study the interdependent components of a bioregenerative life-support system (BLiSS) for a futuristic, moon-based research outpost. 
• Check out the Botball Program  - a high school team project to design an autonomous rover.

• Lunar Prospector Site from CNN

• The LunarSat Mission

LunarSat is a European proposal for a lunar micro-orbiter to investigate the suitability of the Moon's south pole for the first permanent human outpost.
• Japanese Lunar A 

This is a Japanese mission to image the Moon, monitor moonquakes, measure the near-surface thermal properties and heat flux, and study the lunar core and interior structure.
• SELenological and ENgineering Explorer (SELENE)

This idea for a lunar orbiter/lander mission was developed by the Japanese to study the origin, evolution, and tectonics of the Moon.
• SMART-1 Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology - The SMART-1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology 1) is a lunar orbiter designed to test spacecraft technologies for future missions.

• Other Lunar Missions

• Lunar Base Quarterly
• Delphi Project
• Lunar and Mars Exploration, Romance to Reality
• Lunar Exploration Papers
• International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG)
• Lunar Rover Institute
• PERMANENT
• Artemis Project
• More Moon Colony Links
• Power Systems for the Moon

• The Space Settlement Design Study
• Space Colony Design Contest
• Space Settlement Quiz!

Texas Aerospace Scholars Home Page