Related External Web Sites

The following is a list of papers with content matter relevant to the Moon as a whole, missions to the moon, and companies and organizations whose focus is on the moon, but located elsewhere on the World Wide Web.

The Moon Society
http://www.moonsociety.org

The international organization for the study and development of the moon.

National Space Science Data Center Moon Page
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html

Facts, missions, and links to other resources

Nine Planets Luna Page (SEDS)
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html

Basic facts about the moon

Earth and Moon Viewer (Fourmilab Switzerland)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Generates views of Luna from Earth, or Earth from Luna, at a specified date and time

Inconstant Moon
http://www.inconstantmoon.com/

Astronomical observations of the moon for each day in the lunar cycle, in an artistic presentation. Takes its name from a short story by Larry Niven. Warning: music, frames.

The Space Environment: An Overview
http://satori2.lerc.nasa.gov/DOC/seeov/seeov.html

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html

Flight by flight, word for word, transcription of communication between mission control and the Apollo astronauts.

The Face of the Moon (Linda Hall Library)
http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/moon/moonindx.htm

Many historical images. Drawings of the face of the moon from observors throughout history, beginning with Galileo in 1554.

Lunar Underground Web Ring
http://www.asi.org/adb/09/09/lugwrhome.html

Home page for the Lunar Underground Web Ring. All web sites related to the moon are welcome and encouraged to join the ring. A service of Artemis Society International.

Lunar Prospector
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov./

Lunar Prospector was launched to the Moon on January 6, 1998 and impacted the south polar region on July 31, 1999. It started out as a private lunar mapping mission, and eventually was sponsored by NASA at the Ames Research Center.

Lunar Module Team Logos (Grumman)
http://users.specdata.com/home/pullo/lm_patch.htm

Some fascinating history: the logos that the Grumman lunar module teams used during the Apollo program. Each lunar module team had its own mission patch.

TransOrbital
http://www.transorbital.net/

TransOrbital's Trailblazer 2001 and Electra missions to the moon have their roots in Artemis Society International's Microlander Team.

LunaCorp
http://www.lunacorp.com/

The corporate side of the Lunar Rover Initiative. LunaCorp signed their first major sponsor, Radio Shack, in 2000.

Lunar Rover Initiative (Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute)
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/lri/Luna/

The technical side of the Lunar Rover Initiative.

Lunar Retriver Mission (Applied Space Resources)
http://www.appliedspace.com/mission/lunar_mission.htm

ASR is a marketing firm pushing a lunar sample return mission.

Lunar Institute of Technology
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/school/

Imaginary university on the moon. Has been undergoing rennovation since 1997. Mostly broken links at this time.

If your company or organization has a web site that should be included in this list, please write to webmaster@asi.org. As of this writing there are more than 3000 documents in the Artemis Data Book, so be sure to include the URL of this web page in your message.