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Our
Mission:
The growth and development of
an Earth/Moon economy involving genuine
international civilian lunar settlements.
The University of Luna Project would help
develop the tools needed to meet these
goals.
The ULP will foster the
research and development of
technologies needed in creating an
Earth Moon Economy that uses lunar and
space based resources to meet the
critical energy and environmental
problems of the Earth. It will help
create the means of learning to live
and profit in the harsh environment of
cislunar space, thereby building the
pathway to Mars and the opening of the
solar system to human utilization.
Our
Strategy: The ULP will be a
catalyst for student involvement in this
creative campaign seeking innovative ways
of meeting technology challenges and
encouraging student entrepreneurship
Where possible the ULP will
encourage private and commercial
approaches alongside the work of
national space agencies.
Our method is to leverage the
resources of existing educational
institutions, government organizations,
and commercial groups and facilitating
web-based global access to information
and means of participation.
University of
Luna Project
Mission
Tools
A. Creating an online node
of links
to past, ongoing, and
proposed Moon-focused missions, and
research, undertaken by various
national space agencies,
organizations, and educational and
research institutions.
B. Offering mechanisms for
communication, documentation,
coordination and management
of research and project
activities that engage widely
dispersed working groups.
C. Serving as a catalyst for
research & development of immature
technologies
essential to an Earth/Moon
economy involving resource-using
civilian settlements
D. Providing mechanisms and
forums to support international
coordination of lunar missions
as advocated and proposed
by the International Lunar
Exploration Working Group as part of
the newly declared International
Lunar Decade
E. Creating stimuli for student
interest,
learning and recruitment in
the lunar community of interest by
creating opportunities for global
education, communication,
participation, employment,
conference participation, and
student entrepreneurial initiatives
in this realm.
F. Facilitating public outreach
& education in lunar
exploration,
research and economic
development by linking and
leveraging the resources and
activities of existing educational,
industrial and governmental
organizations.
Our Vision,
Mission, and Strategies will Evolve as The
Project Advances.
As we begin to establish permanent
human presence on the Moon,
and as the Project phases into the
University,
our Vision, Mission, and Strategy will
look like this:
Vision:
The development of genuine
diversified mature lunar settlements in a
robust and expanding Earth/Moon economic
system.
Mission:
The establishment of a true "Land
Grant" style University on the Moon.
This might be created by an
international Charter, as a
multinational learning community in
support of spacefaring humanity. This
may grow out the need for an on
location structure and mechanism for
continuing research & development,
as well as training lunar pioneers, as
the human community on the Moon
expands.
Such a University could begin when
the settlement population is still
quite small, the majority of the
faculty living on Earth and working at
various institutions of higher learning
on Earth, all by telepresence.
Strategy:
The University of Luna on the Moon will
continue to help pioneers develop needed
technologies and more fully acculturate
them to life on the Moon.
The UL will educate citizens
in cislunar space and on economic
development in the context of an
Earth-Moon Economy.
The UL will continue to develop
needed but immature technologies to
enable Lunans to use local resources
more efficiently, develop more products
for local consumption as well as for
export, fostering the rise of new
enterprises and cottage industries.
The University will continue to
develop uniquely appropriate habitat
architectures, modular biospheric
systems. I
t will guide the development of
off-Luna markets for both exports and
needed imports, making the Moon an
integral keystone in an emergent Solar
System wide economy.
Relevant
Internal Links
Executive Summary (U.C. -
link to be provided when finalized)
Role
of a University in an Actual Lunar
Settlement (From Moon
Miners' Manifesto #29, October 1989 and
MMM #109, October 1997)
The
Original MMM #112 Article February
1998
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