MMM Classics Year 10: MMM #s 91-100 - Moon Society

KEY: A. Lander core with power and communications package;
B. One of three landing pads; C. retractable booms; D. videocam;
E. Videocam’s field of view; F. Electronic message board telechanged
from Earth; G. Background scenery.
Another idea was to draw messages on sand with a stick,
and photograph these. [anything from ads to expensive but
cherished Valentine Day “I love you” cards - authenticated.]
(b) Signs on the Moon whose message can be telechanged from
Earth, with image of sign in lunar setting transmitted to Earth -
i.e. real time unobtrusive advertising on the Moon.
22. High Definition digital video [the Artemis Story, etc.]
23. TV produced on Moon. Aerobics, Kick Boxing and Karate,
[and the obvious bootleg videos which must remain rumored.]
24. Selling 1/6th g rides on counterweighted gym sets [such as
the Mars-grav weight compensating gym set made by Ann
Arbor Space Society]
25. Sports Programs [uniquely lunar sports that do not need a
lot of pressurized volume - with fast, neat action and high
spectator value - direct pay-for-view broadcasting to Earth]
26. Maps of Moonbase area [wall murals, placemats, anyone?]
27. [Static] Models and working models
28. [Merchandising mail order] Catalog of cool space stuff
29. Pay to work schemes [like architectural and paleontological
“digs”] Hands on patronage. Field Trips. Sponsored trips
[can be to terrestrial sites where neat preparation and simulation
things are happening]
30. A newsletter “Holidays on the Moon” published when
morning comes to the proposed settlement site [i.e. moonthly]
31. Medallions - [individualized] matching set - one sent to the
Moon. You keep the other one.
32. Mission Control Center for the Artemis landing missions to
be located in a Theme Park [pay-to-observe]
33. Coin-operated games; your face in a cool Moonbase setting
34. Limited Edition Prints, signed by artists, countersigned by
the first return crew - e.g. famed artists like Kim Poor
35. Mural Pictures [Murals are scenic wall papers 4 large
pieces across the top and 4 across the bottom, not pre-pasted.
Environmental Graphics of the Twin Cities is top manufacturer
of nearly 2 dozen scenes which sell for $40-50 and
include Earth over Apollo 17 landing site, Columbia in orbit
over cloud-studded Earth, and Saturn and its moons]
36. Space-wear and Moon-wear clothing for Ken, Barbie dolls.
Group B: Peter Kokh (group secretary), Fred Oesau,
David Crawford, Doug Seitz, Jim Plaxco, and Kevin Crowley.
fi Whereas Group A concentrated (not exclusively) on money
generating ideas to get the Artemis Project “on the way”,
Group B chose to concentrate (again not exclusively) on
money generating ideas that would apply “once a permanent
occupiable outpost was set up”.
1. Testing/tending of prototype feasibility demonstration
equipment for mining operations, beneficiation processes,
other processing: e.g. lunar oxygen production, silane [siliconbased
analog of methane] fuel production; iron fine extraction
and sintered iron product manufacturing; i.e. Artemis crewmembers
serve as time-share mission specialists for companies
hoping to do industrial business on the Moon.
Money would be earned not only from providing timeshare
trained labor. Income would also be generated by
carrying along equipment to the Moon, shipping back various
processed and manufactured samples, etc. i.e. renting payload
space and mass aboard the Lunar Transfer Vehicle, and
descent/ ascent vehicles.
2. On site Advertising. More elaborate possibilities than in #
21 above because of the availability of crew for non-electronic
changeouts, as well as part time models, actors, etc. The
availability of crew also permits greater latitude in changing
the all-important background setting, i.e. in total picture
composition. It allows moving “commercials” as well.
3. Setting up and Tending Telescopes and other astronomical
installations (changeout of instrumentation) for university-consortia
etc. This would involve trained time share crew
as mission specialists, and fees for payload bay space and
weight as in # 1, above.
4. Teleoperated “Working” Robot-Rovers - Artemis sells
minutes/hours for the right to teleoperate mobile equipment
that (a) emplaces regolith shielding over the habitat complex;
(b) grades approaches and aprons, improved landing pad, etc.;
(c) collects dust and rocket samples.
Time could be purchased directly, or, seeing that it
would be expensive and eliminate all but the best-heeled of
individuals, corporate sponsors (or Artemis itself) could raffle
off the right to teleoperate such equipment, after a minimum
number of hours of simulation training, of course, this included
in the package, so that the actual time would be well spent,
both to reward the lucky individual teleoperator, and to
maximize for Artemis the efficiency and safety with which the
needed work gets done.
This concept would not be unlike going on a paid
“teleoperated” archeological of paleontological “dig”.
5. We noted that many income opportunities will presuppose
that Artemis planners had picked a visually exciting site with
its surroundings, not just a scientifically exciting one.
6. Photograph panoramas deserving of being rendered as
wall murals (wallpaper, see #, Group A, above). This will
include one of the Artemis Moonbase itself, either/both as
under construction or/and as completed (phase 1), as well as
various untransformed scenic vistas in the area.
Some of these murals could be available for open
reproduction, others sold in limited sets of 100 to generate high
individual auction/bid prices.
7. Telerobotic lessons sold separately to qualify winners of
teleoperation time. See # 4, above.
8. $100 million lottery - winner to be trained as time-share
mission specialist along on the first, or second mission.
9. Teleoperable manufacturing equipment to be engineered
by rival competing engineering teams pro bono - the carrot
reward being the right to get a percentage return or royalty on
income generated by the teleoperated device for the its
operational lifetime.
10. Entertainment pay-per-view TV produced on site,
capitalizing on eerie effects of 1/6th gravity: one or two person
ballet performances (doable on a small set); midget sumo
wrestling (our apologies to the Little People or those of
Japanese descent to whom our fun suggestion is offensive);
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