“Life and Work on the Moon” – a painting by Pratham Karnik, son of Deviprasad Karnik. He had placed first with the best overall score in High School level in the NASA Lunar Art& design contest June 2009. See photo of Pratham with art on page 3. Feature Articles This Issue Welcome to Moon Miners’ Manifesto India’s Antarctic Experience as Preparation for a India Quarterly Edition #4 Lunar Analog Station and Future Moonbase This issue completes “M3IQ’s” first full year of Pradeep Mohandas p. 4 publication. Issues #s 5-8 [Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall ‘10] Chandrayaan-1 a Shining Success: New Hints of are scheduled for January, April, July, and October 2010. Water on the Moon David A. Dunlop p. 6 Putting these issues together has been a lot of fun Lavatubes: The Moon’s “Hidden Valleys” and we expect it to continue being so. Response has been Peter Kokh p. 9 overwhelmingly favorable and has led to the formation of Moon Society India, being announced simultaneously with Early Lunar Basalt Industries release of this issue. The MSI founders have asked us to Peter Kokh p. 11 continue publishing M3IQ through the coming year, at the Name Games for Planets Around Other Suns conclusion of which it may be replaced with a new Peter Kokh p. 15 publication written, edited, and published within India. Will We Trash the Moon? Peter Kokh p. 18 For us, this handing over of the reins will be a Complete article & feature index on the last page rewarding and gratifying occasion. The Editors. 1 About The Moon Society About MMM-India Quarterly http://www,moonsociety.org http://india.moonsociety.org/india/mmm-india/ Our Vision says Who We Are This publication is being launched with this Fall We envision a future in which the free enterprise human 2008 issue. The Moon Society was founded as an Inter- economy has expanded to include settlements on the national organization, but in fact has few members Moon and elsewhere, contributing products and services outside the United States, and these are for the most part that will foster a better life for all humanity on Earth and solitary and unorganized. beyond, inspiring our youth, and fostering hope in an Background open-ended positive future for humankind. The Moon Society and The Planetary Society of Moon Society Mission Youth (TPSY) in India, http://www.youthplanetary.org/ Our Mission is to inspire and involve people everywhere, in December 2003, put together a "Design a Mission to and from all walks of life, in the effort to create an the Moon" category in TPSY's student design contest -- expanded Earth-Moon economy that will contribute "A Mission to the Moon and Beyond." solutions to the major problems that continue to challenge The contest was designed to help students learn our home world. about various objects in the solar system as they compete Moon Society Strategy in the design of a mission. We seek to address these goals through education, http://www.youthplanetary.org/moon_mission_contest.html outreach to young people and to people in general, Why an MMM-India Quarterly? contests & competitions, workshops, ground level India is a very populous country, and one in research and technology experiments, private which, through the heritage of the British Raj, English is entrepreneurial ventures, moonbase simulation exercises, the almost universal medium of higher education. It is tourist centers, and other legitimate means. likely that English-fluent Indians outnumber English About Moon Miners’ Manifesto speakers in the United States. More books are published in English than in any other country. http://www.MoonMinersManifesto.com And – India is going to the Moon! MMM is published 10 times a year (except January and July. The December 2008 issue will begin its 23rd year of In short, we’d like to share with space-interested continuous publication. and space-enthused people in India, our vision of the possibilities for Exploration and Utilization of the Moon, Most issues deal with the opening of the Lunar frontier, development of lunar resources, not just to support a suggesting how pioneers can make best use of local permanent population on the Moon, but to help better resources and learn to make themselves at home. This address chronic clean energy supply problems on Earth will involve psychological, social, and physiological and to help slow and reverse our home planet’s environ- adjustment. mental degradation in the process. In short, we would like Some of the points made will relate specifically to to share our glimpse of an emerging greater Earth-Moon pioneer life in the lunar environment. But much of what Economy. will hold for the Moon, will also hold true for Mars and This vision was well-expressed by the former for space in general. We have one Mars theme issue each President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in a speech year, and occasionally other space destinations are at The Symposium on “The Future of Space Exploration: discussed: the asteroids, Europa (Jupiter), Titan (Saturn), Solutions to Earthly Problems” to mark the occasion of even the cloud tops of Venus. the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of Space Age, Boston Issues #145 (May 2001) forward through current are as University, Boston, MA, April 12, 2007. pdf file downloads with a Moon Society username and In this speech, Dr. Kalam made the point that to password. Moon Society International memberships are fully industrialize and become an equal partner in the $35 US; $20 students, seniors – join online at: future of our planet, India needs to access the unlimited http://www.moonsociety.org/register/ clean undiluted solar energy available in space. We agree MMM Classics: All the “non-time-sensitive editorials with his assertions and want to share that bold vision with and articles from past issues of MMM have been re-edited the forward-looking people of India. and republished in pdf files, one per publication year. A Free Access: 3-year plus lag is kept between the MMM Classic MMM-India Quarterly issues will be available as a volumes and the current issue. These issues are freely free access pdf file, downloadable from the Internet. We accessible to all, no username or password needed, at: encourage readers to share these files with others freely, http://www.moonsocietyorg/publications/mmm_classics/ and to use this publication to grow and cultivate wide- spread interest in the open-ended possibilities of space Editors of MMM-India Quarterly: among the people of India, and to encourage the rise of Peter Kokh [email protected] additional citizen support space organizations within the Madhu Thangavelu [email protected] country. David A. Dunlop [email protected] 2 The Story on this issue’s Cover Art Piece Pratham Karnik holds his award winning painting, “Life and Work on the Moon.” Pratham is the son of Deviprasad Karnik, Space Counselor at India’s Embassy in Washington, DC. Mr. Karnik writes: “Yesterday the celebration of 40th anniversary of Apollo landing was amazing at National Air & Space Museum with all three Apollo 11 Astronauts present. Meanwhile my son Pratham Karnik stood first with the best overall score in High School level in the NASA’s Lunar Art & Design contest 2009. The award ceremony was also held July 24, at NASA HQ in DC.” Pratham is a student at Walt Whitman High School, Rockville, MD, outside Washington. The Place of Art in the Space Movement Commentary By Peter Kokh MOONSHOT INDIA “A picture is worth a thousand words” - Confucious By Srinivas Laxman Indeed, for many people, even in this day and age of “MOONSHOT INDIA” traces the journey of media science fiction, trying to imagine suggested, proposed India’s first Moon Mission, Chdrayaan-1, from conception to or predicted future space settings (Moon and Mars bases and its thrilling launch, its sudden termination, to its sensational cities, for example) is quite difficult. There are so many discovery of water and ISRO’s future space pragramme. The features and aspects required by the environments on the book also describes the origin of the ‘space race’ and the surfaces of other worlds, things beyond common experience, renewed interest of nations in the Moon exploration and that it is hard to get excited by what they read or hear. future habitation. Written in readable language and with Unless! Unless there is accompanying artwork. The photographs especially to interest young readers.” heroes here are the illustrators of such magazines as Popular His passion for spaceflight has taken him to NASA’s Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanics Illustrated – all US Kennedy Space centre in Florida, the Johnson Space Centre in publications with which I am familiar. Houston, Texas and the European spaceport in Kourou, As to “science-fiction” artwork, whether in print or French Guyana, South America as well as to several major on the big or little screen, perhaps most of it is blatantly launches at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, unrealistic, ignoring physical facts. A commonplace example Andhra Pradesh. is the glass domed city siting on the surface of a world with As a space journalist in Mumbai, he has interacted no, too little, or unbreathable atmosphere. The internal with India’s top figures in the field like K. Kasturirangan, pressure would blow those domes skyward in minute, no G. Madhavan Nair, U. R. Rao, late Satish Dhawan, and matter how well anchored. Plus they present single point-of- renowned astronauts like Neil Armstrong, the first man on failure opportunities to an incoming meterorite with just the Moon, and Eugene Cernan, the last man on the Moon. enough mass or energy; nor do they protect from cosmic rays He has also interviewed and authored Dreams to and solar flares.