ULP IS A MOON SOCIETY INNITIATIVE

ULP is a MOON Society Innitiative

• However it will function with full autonomy, with its own Board of Directors and Officers.
• It will have its own budget and financing.
• All space advocacy organizations are invited to cosponsor through collaboration on various levels (check our website for the current sponsor list)
• Institutional sponsors are welcome on areas of research and student projects.
• Colleges, universities, individual university departments are invited to support this effort as a way to enhance and/or compliment their own research programs.
• Industrial corporations and other enterprises of any kind are invited to support this effort.
• To discuss ways in which you can participate, just send an e-mail message to koknmmm@aol,com and/or daviddunlop@gmail.com

THE U-LUNA PROJECT IN A NUTSHELL

• A "grass roots" effort of those who believe the Moon has a significant role to play in our future.
• United in activities aimed at providing Lunar pioneers with tools that they will need to succeed.
• So that they can get off to a great start.

PRIORITIES

• Any and all projects that engage youth. The current generationwill soon retire. If we do not replace ourselves, its all over.
• There is an urgent need to do what we can to get the instruments flown that will help complete the "economic geography" of the Moon's resources and physical assets of economic significance.

THE FRIENDS OF THE U-LUNA PROJECT

• Any project as vast and comprehensive as this can be advanced by a "Friends of" Organization
• The focus of such a group is to compliment the projects and programs of the ULP - not to replace or duplicate services.
• The Friends can arrange introduction parties, educational events & organize fundraising efforts.
• The Friends can set up speaking engagements, receptions, workshops, seminars and conferences.
• The Friends can do public out reach to increase recognation, understanding, and support for the ULP's vision, goals, and projects.
• The Friends can arrainge award ceremonies in recognition of outstanding in research.
• The Moon Society and other space activist societies can help set up this "Friends of" group.

GETTING INVOLVED - CONTACT INFO

• David A. Dunlop - daviddunlop@gmail.com ULP Executive Director - 708-848-6605
• Peter Kokh - kokhmmm@aol.com Chair ULP Board of Advisors - 414-342-0705

A CYBERSPACE RESEARCH CATALYST & RESEARCH ENGINE

THE PROJECT WILL INCLUDE MANY PARTS

• Diverse projects
• In a large number of categories

WHAT THAT MEANS

• We need a team of many individuals to oversee work proposed and in progress in many areas
• A number of team-maintained website directives

SOME TEAMS WILL BE MORE PRODUCTIVE

• That can't be helped
• But everthing we accomplish will help advance the Dawn of a vigorous Lunar Frontier
• The more we get done, the stronger the frontier

OTHER THAN INDIA, NO NATION HAS YET ADOPTED THE CREATION OF AN EARTH-MOON ECONOMY AS A GOAL

• Our work can help change the situation.
• This is a dream that is up to us to realize.
• We owe it to ourselves and our children.
• It is a plan that will guide our successors.

UNIVERSITY OF LUNA PROJECT RESEARCH TOOLS

Focused on Students & Enterprise

# Lunarpedia.org - An open-source online Moon-focused Encyclopedia launched in January 2007.
# Data Mining Projects, gaining fresh insights from data of lunar missions already flown.
# "Spin-up" Enterprises - Doing the R&D for technologies needed on the Moon - now - for the sake of profitable terrestrial applications, thus putting these techonoligies "on the shelf," with the bill for the R&D paid for by consumers.
# Listing Masters & Doctorial Theses Topics that address specific research holes - engage students.
# Targeted College Engineering & Design Competitions & Contests - engage students
# Research-focused Curricula - engage students
# Envelope pushing Workshops
# Involving Universities and Corporations
# Lunar Analog Research Stations

WHERE WILL THE RESEARCH BE DONE?
At Universities and Colleges, in Corporate Labs

WE WISH TO COLLABORATE WITH EXISTING INSTUITIONS, NOT TO COMPETE WITH THEM.

WHOSE PROJECT IS THIS?

• This is an open-source project to which anyone who believes the Moon has a place in our future is welcome to find a way to contribute.
• ULP will complement the work of NASA, ESA JAXA, ISRO and other national space agencies

WE CAN NOT PLAN THE RESULTS

• What gets done depends on the interests, talent and energies of those who choose to participate
• This could be your project!

AREAS THAT NEED R&D NOW PART 3

ARTS DEPARTMENT

• Made-on-Luna art media
• Made-on-Luna musical instruments
• Lunar performing arts forms

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

• Vehicles for pressurized roadways
• Design surface highways and various vehicles
• Design self-help roadway service stations, etc.
• Lunar railway & Cableway systems
• Human-powered cycles for 1/6th Gravity
• Suborbital transports and runways

SPORTS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT

• Sports designed for 1/6th Gravity
• Dance forms for 1/6th Gravity
• Exposed surface recreation and sporting activities

FRONTIER MEDICINE / HEALTH

• Compact full-function hospitals
• Frontier first aid kits and systems
• Research in LEO facilities with 1/6th Gravity for early cues to physiological & other health problems
• Nutritional diets for 1/6th Gravity

HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

• Production-support for seniors, youth, etc.
• Tasks to outsource to teleoperators on Earth to free others for export/domestic production needs
• Tasks for the antisocial element

POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

• Determine criteria for phasing in home rule
• Earth Political, Economic, Cultural, Relations

AREAS WHICH NEED R&D NOW PART 2

MATERIALS RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

• Concrete, ceramics, cast basalt
• Glass, glass fiber, glass composites
• Ceramics options
• Metal alloys

ARCHITECTURE

• Modular architecture system
• Surface structure architecture
• Shielding systems and Flare Sheds
• Warehouse Systems
• Construction systems that minimize EVA
• Low gravity Stair/ladder design

AGRICULTURE & BIOSPHERE

Agriculture and Food Processing

• Development of new hybrids
• Biological diversification project
• Wild Areas Project
• Food processing
• Biomass waste recycling
• Fiber production
• Pharmaceutical production
• Climate options

Lunar Biospherics Research

• Modular biospheres to enable in step growth
• Graywater and blackwqater systems
• Enviromental protection protocols

AREAS THAT NEED R&D NOW PART 1

SELENOLOGY DEPARTMENT

• "Econimic Geogrophy" of Lunar resources
• Identification of logical Transportation Corridors
• Ground Truth landers & rovers
• Data Mining Projects (missions already flown)
• Feature and Place Name Registry
• Areas of Geological, Senic Historical Value

ENERGY DEPARTMENT

• Helium 3 extraction, handling, shipping
• Lunar Solar Power Systems
• Power Storage System
• Dayspan/Nightspan Operations
• Recycling of embodied energy
• Energy efficiency research
• Industrial parks organized into thermal cascades
• Lunar sourceable fuels for generators, vehicles
• Mass driver systems for bulk exports
• Mass catcher systems for bulk imports

ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT

• Farside radio astronomy
• Optical astronomy installations
• Amateur Telescopes for Lunan pioneers

LUNAR TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

• Mining & Processing Technologies
• Lunar-deficient elements - alternative sources
• Lunar Satellite systems
• Water-conserving Manufacturing
• Dust control systems
• Lunar-Appropriate Industrial Design
• Disassembly-friendly assembly to enable recycling

THE UNIVERSITY OF LUNA PROJECT

INTRODUCTION

There will be no Earth-Moon Economy, no Lunar Frontier, and no University of Luna on the Moon if we do not learn more about the Moon now, and predevelop now the key technologies to progress from an outpost to enterprise-based frontier. To address this, we (the Moon Society, National Space Society and the Lunar Reclamation Society) have created The University of Luna Project.

Our Vision: The growth and development of an Earth/Moon economy involving genuine international civilian settlements.

Our Mission: foster the research and development of technologies needed to create an Earth/Moon Economy that uses lunar and space based resourcesto address the critical energy and enviromental problems of the earth.

Our Strategy: the "University of Luna Project"

• A catalyst for student involvement in pursuit of innovative ways to meet technology challenges and encouraging student entrepreneurship.
• Encouraging private and commercial approaches alongside the work of national space agengies.
• Leverage the resources of existing educational instuitions, government agencies, and industry.
• Facilitate web-based global access to information on the Moon and to means of participation.

CHAPTER 4 THE EQUIPMENT F) MASS DRIVERS G) CONSTRUCTION QUARTERS

F) MASS DRIVERS

The “Mass Drivers”, or as they are sometimes called “Rail Guns”, be built on the moon from plans supplied by engineers on the Earth. They can use materials taken from the Lunar Surface and processed in the Lunar Facility that will have to be built to process the metals.

Parts for the initial Mass Driver can be included on the Cargo vehicle that transports the station’s equipment to the Lunar Surface. Even portions of the frame for the multiple-body Cargo Landers can be used as part of the Mass Driver System


G) CONSTRUCTION QUARTERS

The initial Construction Quarters may be either inflatable Igloos or Quonset Huts. The Quarters may be fabricated in a similar way to the “Space Tugs”. Designed and assembled on Earth inflated in the factory with dry Nitrogen to check for any leaks and the basic workmanship of the assemblers. The assembly will have a couple of entrances and both will have airlocks to save on atmospheric gases. It will also have an atmosphere scrubbing station for recovery of Oxygen and Water Vapor, and a communications suite for talking to the Orbital Stations and workman on the surface on the Moon. It will also need the Radar and Laser suite for Landing Approach and Control of incoming Landers and the departure of Landers returning to the Orbiter.

All of the equipment for the Construction Quarters can be designed to fit into suitcase sized transportation cases and brought inside through the air locks and connected to cabling designed into the Quarters on the Earth.

An alternate method would be to have inflateable “ribs” in the facility that could be inflated with out the facility itself being pressurized and when all of the equipment is inside the airlocks closed and the facility pressurized.

CHAPTER 4 THE EQUIPMENT D) SERVICE STATION & E) PROCESSING MACHINES

D) ORBITAL SERVICE STATION

The “Orbital Service Station” should be a hub that fuel tanks and “Boost Vehicles” can be firmly connected to and spun up to a few tenths of a “g” for recovering the left over fuel. There can be four or six positions on the “Fuel Depot” two of them permanently connected to a couple of fuel tanks to store the recovered fuel for later use.

Among the fuels stored at the “Fuel Depot” would be the standard Fuel Compound, The standard Oxidizer and Hydrogen Peroxide for the various requirements of the vehicles in need of refueling while in orbit.

The axis that the “Fuel Depot” should rotate around and be pointed directly toward the Space Station for safety reasons or be firmly fixed to the Space Station by a long truss to hold it in position.

E) PROCESSING MACHINES

The “Processing Machines” will have to be designed to gather the regolith and separate the various compounds for refinement later at the facility designated to do the separation process. After processing the metals into “slugs” of the base metal and storing the gases in storage tanks designed to hold them, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Helium, etc.

The initial design work for some of these machines has already been done. Further design work will make the process more economical and faster to complete.
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CHAPTER 4 THE EQUIPMENT (C) LUNAR LANDERS

C) LUNAR LANDERS

The basic design is already done for the small two to four manned “Lunar Lander”, the original LEM can be upgraded for the new “Lunar Lander”. The new “Lunar Lander” will require a capability of landing a large mass on the Lunar surface. The mass landed by this Lander will consist of the materials for the “Construction Shack”, “Construction Equipment”, Supplies, Extra Fuel for the initial Lunar side “Fuel Depot” and the construction Personnel.

This Lander may be assembled in Earth Orbit and then “flown” to Lunar Orbit where the final preparations can be made at the Lunar Orbital Station. Preparation could include removal of empty fuel and Oxidizer tanks for use by the Lunar Orbital Station and final check prior to the landing sequence. This vehicle may be manned or remote controlled, but will land at a spot on Lunar surface already selected for its suitability. The site will have a Radar reflector to ensure that the Lander can lock onto it and descend to that target spot. For further landings this landing spot will be the “Space Port” for manned landings and takeoffs.

The initial landing may require two or more Landers to ferry down the equipment. The Landers will become part of the initial settlement structure except for Landers that are designed to be ferries between the Settlement and Lunar Orbit.

The Cargo Lander may be build by bringing together five or more Titan V type Lift vehicles. The Vehicles should be built into one large vehicle for transferring their cargo to the Lunar Surface. As a single vehicle it can land as a single unit and then use its size to aid in lowering the different individual vehicles to a horizontal position after their Tanks have been emptied and the fuel and Oxidizer has been stored in the “Fuel Depot”.
As each vehicle is lowered to a horizontal position a carrier can be placed under it to transport it to its assigned position in the “Lunar Surface Station”. After all the separate Vehicles have been lowered to the surface and positioned the frame of the Landing Vehicle can be disassembled and then reassembled as a “small Initial Mass Driver”. Part of the equipment to build the “Lunar Surface Station” will be the shell of the “Cargo Landers” and other parts can be “Inflatable Tunnels, personnel Quarters or larger work areas. The maximum economically feasible use should be the target of planning for this construction.

CHAPTER 4 THE EQUIPMENT (B) TRANSFER VEHICLES

B) TRANSFER VEHICLES

The “Transfer Vehicles” or “Taxis” or even “Buses” could be designed in much the same way that the “Space Tugs” are designed, only on a larger scale. “Taxis” would require room for up to six passengers and “Buses” would require room for a dozen or more for short inter-earth-orbital travel. They probably will require several packages for assembly and would use the same fuel that the Lifters into orbit use and would be refueled at the Fuel Depot using the remaining fuel from the lift vehicles. The electronics would be upgraded for long range communication with both Earth and Lunar Orbital Stations as well as the Ground bases, also the Radar and Laser systems will need to be upgraded for the greater distances involved. The Inertial referencing system will also have to be upgraded to make navigation easier.

The Frame should have “hatches” that can be opened for access to the cargo that needs to be shuttled to or from the Lunar Station and/or have a passenger compartment built into the vehicle for ferrying personnel to the Lunar Orbital Station for replacement for transfer down to the Lunar Station. This Vehicle can also be used to bring tourists up to Lunar Orbit from the Earth Orbital Tourist Hotel. If it is decided to use the “Buses” or “Taxis” for trips to the Lunar Orbital station then the might need to be modified for the extra fuel requirements. If in the future a decision to land the “Taxis” or “Buses” on the Lunar surface then special retro rocket systems can be developed for use on the “Lunar Landers” to facilitate the landing on the surface.

4th of JULY HOLIDAY

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Please be safe and enjoy.

Craig

CHAPTER 4 THE EQUIPMENT

A) SPACE TUGS

The “Space Tugs” can be designed and built on the Earth by fabricating the frame at a factory on Earth and attaching it to the Fuel Tank, Fuel Control, Engines, Control Cab and Electronics. The frame may be designed to be inflated with expanding foam filler that will make the frame rigid once it is in orbit and initiated. To inflate it would require that it be released from the cargo rocket and unwrapped, the “Tug” would then be inflated to give it form then an injectable plastic Resin/Foam would be released into the frame of the “Space Tug”.

The ‘Bigelow’ method is a good start to this kind of construction. Note; inflateable buildings have been used by the US Military since the Vietnam War and before for emergency field hospitals along with civilian uses since then. The electronic controls would contain an attitude reference, short range radar and laser lock on and range position targets, other items in the general vicinity, Laser and UHF communi- cations to the Space Station, the crews on the delivery vehicles, and orbital lift vehicles or “Transfer Vehicles.”

The Rocket propulsion system of the “Space Tug” can be Hydrogen Peroxide for simplicity and reliability. Also, there can be small strap on Solid Fuel Rockets for use in a backup roll for larger masses. The Hydrogen Peroxide would also be used in the attitude thrusters and would be available at the orbital “Fuel Depot”. To conserve fuel the “Space Tug” could deploy a cable and/or small solid state retrorockets to be attached to the arriving vehicle to bring it into any receiving area that is desired.

APOLOGIES TO MY READERS AND VISITORS!

My computer crashed three weeks ago this tuesday. I had it in the shop for repair and recovery of data.

The problem is I am still trying to recover files and prepare them for posting.

Please bear with me and I will get it back up to speed as soon as I can.

Craig