The primary focus of The Moon Society is the permanent settlement of Luna (aka The Moon). These are organizations, companies, and individuals working on making that happen. And you can help.
Primary Partners
- Lunar Homestead – Researching the tech necessary for permanent Lunar settlement.
Other Lunar organizations and websites
- The American Lunar Society – Interested in learning more about Luna? Check them out!
- Apollo 11 in Real Time – Watch the Apollo 11 landing in real time using historical footage. Pretty cool!
- Arch Mission Foundation – Their mission is to protect human knowledge by placing it all over the solar system. Some of it is already on Luna (it was on the SpaceIL Beresheet Moon lander which crashed and may be intact).
- Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers – The have a Lunar section.
- Canadian Lunar Research Network
- Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science
- Daily Moon Position – Just what it says.
- Earth Seed – Kind of similar to Lunar Homestead. Small scale research.
- For All Moonkind – They’re working to preserve the 6 Apollo sites.
- Free Luna – An old blog on Lunar colonization.
- ISRU Info – Facilitates discussions on Lunar ISRU (Mars and asteroids as well).
- LiftPort Group – Lunar Space Elevator infrastructure development, advanced robotics/materials, and media support.
- Lunar Domes Atlas GLR group – An inactive blog with some great pictures.
- Lunar Exploration Analysis Group – LEAG assists NASA in it’s Lunar exploration objectives.
- Lunar Mission One
- Lunar and Planetary Institute – Lunar Science and Exploration
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory – University of Arizona
- Lunar Reclamation Society
- The Lunar Resources Company
- Lunar X-Prize – Great idea but the contest ended before any contestant could win. Now it’s looking for an new sponsor.
- Lunares – A Lunar analog base that can be rented out.
- Moon Base Clavius – A site dedicated to debunking the Moon landing conspiracies.
- Moon Zoo (www.moonzoo.org/) – Moon Zoo was a project to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail, by asking volunteers to identify craters and boulders in millions of images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
- Moonwards – They’re building a virtual Lunar settlement you can explore!
- Planetary Science Institute
- Selenian Boondocks – Science / Tech / Space blog.
- Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute
- Trans Lunar Research
- Universities Space Research Association
- WayPaver Foundation
Space and Moon Related Companies
- Astrobotic – Sells space on their Lunar landers.
- CisLunar Industries
- Draper – They are involved in NASA’s return to Luna.
- Firefly Aerospace
- Intuitive Machines – They’ve been picked by NASA to start landing equipment on Luna.
- ISpace
- Lunar Exploration Analysis Group – LEAG assists NASA in it’s Lunar exploration objectives. I joined because it’s free but I don’t know how involved LH will be with them.
- Lunar Resources
- Masten – Building Lunar landers.
- Moon Express
- Moon Village Association – An international effort to figure out how to construct a Lunar settlement. I’ve joined but haven’t figured out how to get LH involved
- Off Planet Research – They’re making and selling Lunar regolith simulants.
- Orbit Beyond – A Lunar transportation company working on landers.
- Space Angels – Invest in space companies.
- SpaceIL – The first private Lunar lander! Unfortunately it crashed. Their next mission may be to a different location. ( Hebrew Only )
- Space Mining Technologies – Looks like a new company focusing on mining ice from the Lunar surface.
NASA Moon Links
- NASA Lunar Science Institute – Conferences!
- NASA Moon
- NASA Apollo