Moon Village Association

MVA participation in the IAF GNF Space Conversations Series
2021-03-10 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
More information on the IAF website
https://www.iafastro.org/events/iaf-gnf-space-conversations-series/moon-village-association-latest-developments.html

GEGSLA Kick-off meeting (Invitation Only)
2021-02-25 00:00 - 23:59 UTC
The GEGSLA kick-off meeting will take place on February 25.
The time of the call will be announced by mid-February.
For more information on GEGSLA, follow the link.
Meeting participation is by invitation only.

C&C monthly call
2021-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
AGENDA:

Introduction
Status of GEGSLA
Registration Project Status
UNOOSA Questions
COPUOS Meetings status
AOB

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Literary Luna - Cultural Considerations WG webinar
2021-01-12 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
A presentation of contemporary poetry about the Moon by Christopher Cokinos and Julie Swarstad Johnson, supported by a show of works of art curated by Lisa Pettibone.

Agenda

Remo Rapetti: Introduction 5′
Christopher Cokinos and Julie Swarstad Johnson: Literary Luna 30′
Lisa Pettibone: Art and the Moon 10′
Arthur Woods: Q&A session

Speakers
Christopher Cokinos is the author or co-editor of seven books, including The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, for which he was awarded a National Science Foundation grant and participated in a scientific expedition to Antarctica, and The Underneath, winner of the New American Press Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in such venues as SkyNews, Sky & Telescope, The Space Review, Scientific American and the Los Angeles Times. He is also co-editor of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight, just out from the University of Arizona Press.
Julie Swarstad Johnson is the author of the poetry collection Pennsylvania Furnace (Unicorn Press, 2019), as well as the poetry chapbook Orchard Light (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). She has served as Artist in Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park, and she is co-editor of Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (University of Arizona Press, 2020). She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and works as a librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Lisa Pettibone, originally from California, is a UK based visual artist and curator working at the intersection of art and science. With an interest in astronomy and physics, her practice investigates how form evolves through hidden forces such as gravity, energy and tension. Producing sculpture, installation and print, her process often incorporates research into scientific concepts. She was artist in residence at Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL) in Surrey from 2018-2019 where she followed the ESA’s Euclid Mission. With an MA in Art and Science from Central Saint Martins London (2018), she exhibits internationally and won the UK National Open Art Prize 2017. Lisa has been a member of the MVA and Cultural Considerations Working Group since 2018. www.pettibone.co.uk

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Visit the Cultural Considerations Working Group website lunarology.space

Moon Village Architecture Working Group Workshop
2020-12-14 14:00 - 2020-12-16 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
The Moon Village Association (MVA) Architectural Concepts and Considerations Working Group and the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering are jointly-organizing an online Moon Village Architecture Workshop that will be held on 14-16 December 2020. This by-invitation online meeting is also being co-organized by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Symposium on Building Blocks for Future Space Exploration and Development, and the National Space Society ISDC Lunar Track. The MVA’s Moon Village (MV) Architecture Working Group is conducting during 2020-2021 an “Architecture Reference Case Study” – addressing prospects for the Moon Village, targeting the 2045 time-frame, but looking back toward the present (e.g., 2025 and 2035) and beyond to the further future. (See https://moonvillageassociation.org/about/working-groups/architectural-concepts/.) USC, including the Viterbi School of Engineering has for years conducted well-known and respected academic programs in space systems engineering and architecture studies – during 2020 focusing in part on lunar surface developments. (Please see https://sites.google.com/a/usc.edu/aste527/home).
Dates/TimeDecember 14, 15 and 16 at 14:00-18:30 CET
Participation in the Workshop will be with invitation only.For invitations, please contact:John Mankins: john.c.mankins@moonvillageassociation.org

C&C monthly call
2020-12-11 00:00 - 23:59 (Europe/Paris)
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Cultural Considerations WG Call
2020-12-03 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
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Promotion of the next webinar Literary Luna (December 15 at 18.00 CEST).
Development of WG’s presence on social media.
Progress in the video project.
First impressions on the new Slack platform functionality.
Any other topic.

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C&C monthly call
2020-11-13 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
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Time: Nov 13, 2020 05:00 PM Paris
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2.Review of the actions
3. Workshop feedback
4. Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activities (GEGLSA), status/planning
5. AOB

1st Online Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium
2020-11-09 00:00 - 2020-11-10 23:59 (Europe/Paris)
Register for free on the LOC website: https://mva2020.cseo.org.cy
The Moon Village Association (MVA) is happy to announce the 1st Online Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium, hosted in Cyprus.
The Workshop & Symposium will focus on the pillars of the MVA, which are to support the growth and development of a sustainable society on the Moon.
This Workshop & Symposium also aims to expand the international and domestic communities for future discussions and to network people interested in MVA’s activities in various fields of industry, government, and academia.
This year the Workshop & Symposium has a special focus in involving African and Middle-Eastern countries.

Cultural Considerations WG Call
2020-11-02 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Zoom Call
AGENDA

Presentation of the new video and ways of sharing it with a large audience.
Report on WG’s recent activities for the next Workshop.
Updates on the contacts for the next webinar in late November or early December.
Any other topic.

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MVA PAYLOAD - The Overview Effect
2020-10-29 08:00 - 09:30 (Europe/Paris)
Join us to hear perspectives of the MVA payload project goals from leaders in their fields!
When humans first set off for the Moon with the Apollo program, and in particular the Apollo 8 mission, they were profoundly moved by what they saw.
They’d been further than any human in the history of our planet and were approaching a new world – but it was what they left behind that really changed their perspective. From a distance, they saw our home – spaceship Earth – “hanging in the void”.
This was the first time someone had described the term the “Overview Effect” – a cognitive state of awareness only acquired when being so far away from the Earth itself, that one becomes overwhelmed by its beauty, fragility and loneliness in the darkness of space. When you’re far enough from home, you really get a sense of appreciating it.
But not everyone has the same experience of the Overview Effect. For some, it brought fear and overwhelming feelings of alienation and isolation.
We’re very excited to be collaborating with the Moon Village Association, to bring together a range of speakers to talk about the wonders of the Overview Effect.
Speakers

Liza Koumi- Moon Village Payloads Project Manager, Space projects engineer, and International Space University Alumni
Philippe Van Nedervelde- Award winning VR creator, Advocate for Spaceflight and Futurist.
Alice Gorman a.k.a Dr Space Junk -Space Archaeologist, Heritage consultant and Board member of the Space Industry Assocation of Australia and Space4women.
Carley Scott- CEO of Equitorial Launch Australia- Australia’s Spaceport at 12 Degrees, Board of Space Industry Association of Australia and CSIRO’s Advanced Manufacturing Academy. .
Vienna Tran, Moderator of the event,Space medicine researcher and Writer with Space Australia.
Dr Sarah Jane Pell – Analogue astronaut , Award winning Artist, Researcher.

Thursday the 29th of October AEST 6:00pm (UTC+11) , 8:00am CET
To register:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/mva-payload-the-overview-effect-tickets-124812009079

Addressing Capacity Building - Facilitating engagement in the Moon Village
2020-10-27 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
The vision of the Moon Village Association is to engage space stakeholders, and most importantly non-space “actors” to implement the Moon Village. International cooperation is key in achieving this, and furthermore engaging countries that are not the usual players in the field is important. The workforce of the near future needs to be nurtured via a wide grassroots effort.
The Moon Village Association has recently implemented their Program for Emerging Space Countries (PESC) which has stimulated interest from around the world. The interested parties, agencies and entities from these emerging countries will require an educational program, as well as a technical training program at all the levels – from schools, to universities, to industry.
The established industry from leading space faring nations will also require their future workforce to possess multi-discipline diverse skills in order to undertake the bold goals of returning to the Moon and creating the first off-world base of humanity on a celestial body other than our planet Earth.
All the above need synergies between key players:

The Moon Village Association, as the institutional platform connecting multi-stakeholders for implementing the Moon Village, utilizing its own PESC program.
The Space Generation Advisory Council, as the international community of all youth that has gone out of their way to engage their interest in a career in space exploration.
The Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation, as the stakeholder with a worldwide network of educational and training material, and a global audience reaching over 1 million people in CSEO’s dissemination of outreach, education and capacity building.
The United Nation Office for Outer Space Affairs, the global official institutional body that drives international efforts for regulating and uniting that nations of our planet in a common goal of peaceful exploration of space beyond our cradle Earth.

Above key players are brought together in this unique webinar that seeks to answer and or identify the needs of capacity building for space and lunar exploration.

Register on Eventbrite to participate in the webinar or watch live on the MVA Facebook Page and CSEO Facebook Page.
The admission in the webinar will be on a first come first served basis.

Participants:
Participants:

Jorge Del Rio Vera: Office for Outer Space Affairs United Nations Office, Vienna
Antonino Salmeri, Space Generation Advisory Council
Ghanim Alotaibi, PESC Project, Moon Village Association
George A Danos, Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO)
Giuseppe Reibaldi, Moon Village Association

Moderator:
Maria Lavithi, Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO)
Program

4:30 – 4:40 pm: Introduction – George A Danos and Giuseppe Reibaldi
4:40 – 4:50 pm: SGAC – The scientists and engineers of the future
4:50 – 5:00 pm: UNOOSA – Connecting established and emerging space-faring nations: Access to Space for All
5:00 – 5:10 pm: PESC – Preparing Emerging Countries for the Moon Village
5:10 – 5:20 pm: CSEO – Capacity Building and the future lunar workforce
5:20 – 5:55 pm: Round table discussion – Moderator CSEO
5:55 – 6:00 pm: Conclusion

Governance of Global Moon Exploration and Settlement Episode 4: Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activities - The way forward
2020-10-16 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
Both the United States and China have revealed their plans to return people to the Moon in the near future. Many other countries, as well as private companies, will partner with the U.S. and China in these endeavors. As these missions move forward, the risk for interference or conflict arising from competition for sunlight, ice, and land will grow. In order to reduce this risk, a set of basic ground rules must be implemented. NASA has begun the process of establishing these rules among its partners in the Artemis Project through a series of bilateral agreements. But the Artemis Accords are aimed to Artemis partners only. The Moon Village Association’s Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity fill this gap by providing a process for developing multilateral ground rules for all countries that are heading to the Moon.
The Principles were issued last March by MVA and following 6 months of public consultation, including several webinars, will be presented in its present form.
This webinar will be the last of the Governance episodes and will present the proposed way forward to implement the Best Practices, in the short and medium to long term as well as provide a sneak preview of the 1st Online Global Moon Village and Workshop, 9-10 November where some announcement are expected.
The panelists will discuss:

Best Practices for sustainable lunar activities, updated version
Implementation strategy:

In the short term, as this will reduce the risk of involuntary accidents and harmful interference, increase confidence building, promote peaceful cooperation, and ensure that lunar activities are conducted in a sustainable manner.
In the medium to long term, the importance of COPUOS will be discussed, to increase the consensus to the Best Practices, with specific reference to the developing countries.

Preliminary Programme of the 1st Online Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium

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The admission in the webinar will be on a first come first served basis.

Speakers:

Niklas Hedman – Chief Committee, Policy and Legal Affairs Section, Office for Outer Space Affairs United Nations Office, Vienna
George A. Danos – Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 1st Online Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium, CEO of Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO)
Steven Freeland – Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University, Australia
Mark J. Sundahl – Director, Global Space Law Center, Cleveland State University
Giuseppe Reibaldi – President, Moon Village Association

Program:

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Introduction/Strategy for implementation (Giuseppe Reibaldi)
3:15 – 3:35 pm: MVA Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activities, updated version following consultation (Mark J. Sundahl)
3:35 – 3:50 pm: COPUOS role (Niklas Hedman)
3:50 – 4:00 pm: 1st Online Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium (George A. Danos)
4:00 – 4:25 pm: Q&A (Moderator: Steven Freeland)
4:25 – 4:30 pm: Conclusions (Giuseppe Reibaldi)

Fly me to the Moon: The Promise of Lunar Tourism
2020-10-15 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
MVA Cultural Considerations Working Group webinar
Agenda

Introduction 5′ – Remo Rapetti
Getting there 20′ – Derek Webber
Being there 20′ – Patrick Collins
Q&A management and conclusions 15′ – Arthur Woods

Speakers
Derek Webber is Director of Spaceport Associates, a member of the Moon Village Association, and on the board of the non-profit ForAllMoonkind. He is a consultant, lecturer, and author of four books on commercial space matters, including space tourism markets, regulation, and spaceports. He is a former satellite engineer, managing director of a satellite services operator, and was Vice-Chair of Judges for the Google Lunar XPRIZE. He is active in efforts to protect the lunar legacy sites from future incursions.
Patrick Collins is Chairman of the Society for Space Tourism of Japan (SSTJ) and Emeritus Professor of Azabu University, where he taught economics for 19 years. Earlier he was a Guest Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of Tokyo University (RCAST), the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL), and the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan, after being Senior Lecturer at Imperial College in London, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the economics of solar power satellites. He is also a Vice-President of Space Renaissance International. The focus of Dr. Collins’ research for the past 40 years has been how to stimulate the growth of commercial space activities, the two most important opportunities being tourism and solar power satellites, including their use as snow melting satellites (SMS).
Register to participate in the webinar:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fly-me-to-the-moon-the-promise-of-lunar-tourism-tickets-122226551907
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Visit the Cultural Considerations Working Group website lunarology.space

IAC 2020 – Symposium 4, Session 2
2020-10-12 11:00 - 2020-10-14 17:00 (Asia/Dubai)
MVA president, Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi is co-chair of the IPC of Session D4.2

Session Title
Contribution of Moon Village to Solving Global Societal Issues

Session Description

Moon Village is a concept that brings together efforts, world-wide, from the private sector, governments, academics and others to explore and use the Moon in a sustainable manner. Moon Village is a community of projects carried out by stakeholders from different fields (for example, technical, scientific, cultural, economic) working together. The implementation of the Moon Village has already started with missions and activities in line with its spirit, It is a major step forward for the peaceful development of humankind. Moon Village can offer a new start to humanity on the Moon and on the Earth by contributing to solve global societal issues. The session will discuss the contributions of the Moon Village to the solution of global challenges (e.g., energy, population, sustainable development, many others). How the Moon Village will support the understanding of the global societal issues and bring benefits to society on a global scale will also be discussed. The session will include also the identification of the related technologies that need to be developed. The definition of a roadmap complementary to the UN Agenda 2030 will be also discussed.
Session details and paper abstractshttps://iafastro.directory/iac/browse/IAC-20/D4/2/

IAC 2020
IAC 2020 – The CyberSpace Edition will feature a Virtual Technical Programme based on a compilation of 10-minute video lectures.
The presentations will be available throughout the entire duration of the congress, 12 to 14 October, in the form of a **Technical Presentations’ Virtual Gallery**. The Virtual Gallery will be grouped per Symposia, where all the video lectures and the full papers submitted to each Symposium will be be available to the Congress participants.
More information on the IAC 2020 website:https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2020/

C&C monthly call
2020-10-09 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Zoom Call
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MVA Italian Network - Round Table
2020-10-07 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Rome)
Program of the Round Table as part of Galassica festival

Introduzione (GR)
MVA Italia- Presentazione degli obiettivi e programma preliminare (Molisella)
Il Villaggio Lunare per i giovani (Giulia Bassani)
Non space companies go to the Moon (Jim Keravala, Membro del Board MVA)
Il Futuro Prossimo Possibile nello Spazio e sulla Luna (Gennaro Russo, IIF-CNS)
Dall’Overview Effect al turismo lunare: quale approccio culturale ai prossimi viaggi spaziali?(Remo Rapetti)
Tecnologie di esplorazione per Luna e Marte (Antonio Del Mastro; Mars Planet)
Domade e Risposte con il publico

More informarion on Gallassica Website

Non-space business goes to the Moon
2020-09-29 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
The ESA Downstream Gateway and the Moon Village Association (MVA) are organizing a webinar to address opportunities and challenges for non-space industries as to their possible contribution to the Moon Village establishment & development.
The event is streamed in cooperation with Cyprus Space Exploration Organization (CSEO).
Register to participate in the webinar:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mva-esa-webinar-non-space-business-goes-to-the-moon-tickets-119598132233
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The admission in the webinar will be on a first come first served basis.
Webinar Objectives

Promote the non-space industries’ involvement in the Moon-related activities
Find mutual benefits for space and non-space industries cooperation in the context of the Moon exploration & utilization
Identify economic expediency and commercial opportunities for non-space industries to invest in new developments aiming at a “dual use” (that is both for space and on-Earth applications), as well as bringing existing terrestrial solutions to the attention of space players
Promote MVA as a possible platform for a dialogue between the two groups of industry, defining attractive cooperation models.

Agenda

Introduction: Oleg Ventskovsky, MVA and Donatella Ponziani, ESA
The Moon Village architecture scenarios and associated building blocks: John Mankins, MVA Vice-President
The Space Agency perspective: Jan Woerner, ESA DG
The Non-Space Companies perspective: Kajima (Japan), Space Zab (Thailand), Dinitech (Italy), Deeplunar (Luxembourg), Autodesk (US)
The Space company perspective: Hervé Gilibert, ArianeGroup CTO
Round-table discussion
Q&A session
Wrap-up and way forward

Webinar – MVA Architectural Concepts Working Group
2020-09-14 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
The world is going to the Moon together. Over the coming 6-7 years, dozens of cubesats, orbiters, landers, rovers and sample returns from up to a dozen countries will be heading to the Moon. The primary focus will be on the science, exploration and on prospects for development of the Moon – with a clear emphasis on the lunar south pole, where large-scale deposits of water ice and other volatile materials are believed to exist.
Numerous space agencies worldwide are now sponsoring projects – including NASA, CNSA, JAXA, ESA, RSA, ISRO and others – which will lead during this decade to humanity’s return to our Moon.
The Moon Village Association (MVA), a non-governmental organization (NGO) formed in Vienna to advance the goal of a global Moon Village (MV), through its MV Architectural Concepts and Considerations Working Group (MV Architecture WG) is during 2020-2021 conducting a focused ‘case study’ examining the ambitious goal of establishing a biologically self-sufficient settlement on the Moon by 2045. Topics include: siting for such a settlement (considering current plans), key ‘building blocks’ that would comprise such as settlement, interoperability, and more.
Program
The event will be held during 16:00-17:30 CEST on 14 September 2020 (Monday in Europe). It is being organized as a ‘workshop-webinar’: about 50% of the planned 1.5-hour discussion will be dedicated to presentation of the current MV Architecture WG Lunar Settlement Case Study; co-Chair of the WG, John C. Mankins will present.
Register to participate in the webinar:
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Closing
Humanity is going to the Moon; you have the opportunity to join this endeavor and to contribute now to developments that will play out during the remainder of this Century. Please join this working discussion, and to consider joining the Case Study team is it continues efforts to define the first lunar Settlement over the coming year.
This event will be one step in the ongoing Case Study, with additional events being held later this year and next; the details of this plan forward will be discussed at the meeting. For more information, please go to:
https://moonvillageassociation.org/about/working-groups/architectural-concepts/

Governance of Global Moon Exploration and Settlement Episode 3 - Sharing the Benefits of Lunar Activities
2020-09-08 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
Both the United States and China have revealed their plans to return people to the Moon in the near future. Many other countries, as well as private companies, will partner with the U.S. and China in these endeavors. As these missions move forward, the risk for interference or conflict arising from competition for sunlight, ice, and land will grow. In order to reduce this risk, a set of basic ground rules must be implemented. NASA has begun the process of establishing these rules among its partners in the Artemis Project through a series of bilateral agreements. But the Artemis Accords are aimed to Artemis partners only. The Moon Village Association’s Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity fill this gap by providing a process for developing multilateral ground rules for all countries that are heading to the Moon. The Principles were issued last March by MVA and can be seen at: https://moonvillageassociation.org/moon-village-principles-mvp-issue-2-draft-public-consultation-opens/.
Among the many legal issues that need clarification is the extent to which space faring countries are obligated to share the benefits of their Moon missions. The sharing of benefits is a fundamental principle of law that is enshrined in the very first article of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty:
“The exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development, and shall be the province of all mankind. “
But what exactly does this article mean? What types of benefits are to be shared? And how?
The second principle in the current draft of the Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity attempts to elaborate on the duty to share benefits by encouraging all space actors to:
“Conduct lunar activities in a manner that takes into account the interests of other actors and benefits all countries and humankind. Both governmental and nongovernmental actors involved in lunar activities should provide for benefit-sharing through all feasible means, including for example the promotion of the participation in lunar activities by all countries, and, in particular, developing countries. “
This webinar will take up this critical issue with the intent of acquiring a better understanding of the meaning and practical impact of the requirement to share benefits according to Best Practices Principles. The panelists will discuss why developing countries should support the adoption of the Best Practices to implement concrete measure on benefit sharing for the upcoming lunar missions.
Register to participate in the webinar:
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or watch live on the MVA Facebook Page.
The admission in the webinar will be on a first come first served basis.

Speakers:

Mr. Ian Christensen, Director of Private Sector Programs, Secure World Foundation
Ms. Fadahunsi-banjo Motolani, Chief Legal Officer at National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), the Nigerian Outer Space Agency
Ms. Loreto Moraga, Director Moon Project Committee Coordinator, Chilean Space Association (ACHIDE)
Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi, President, Moon Village Association
Prof. Mark J. Sundahl, Director, Global Space Law Center, Cleveland State University

Moderator:
Mr. Antonino Salmeri, Space Generation Advisory Council
Agenda:

4:30 – 4:35 Introduction (Giuseppe Reibaldi)
4:35 – 4:45 The Background of Benefit Sharing and the MVA Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity (Mark J. Sundahl)
4:45 – 5:00 An Industry Perspective on Benefit Sharing (Ian Christensen)
5:00 – 5:15 Sharing Benefits with Developing Countries (Fadahunsi-banjo Motolani)
5:15 – 5:30 Sharing Benefits with Developing Countries (Loreto Moraga)
5:30 – 5:55 Participant Comments, Q&A (Moderator: Antonino Salmeri)
5:55 – 6:00 Conclusions (Giuseppe Reibaldi)

Watch Governance of Global Moon Exploration and Settlement Episode 1-Best Practices
Watch Governance of Global Moon Exploration and Settlement Episode 2-Operating with Due Regard, Avoiding Harmful Interference, and Establishing Safety Zones

Roscosmos - First online space law and policies international conference “Russian outer space talks”
2020-09-03 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
MVA President, Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi will be a speaker at the first online space law and policies international conference “Russian outer space talks” conference, which is organised by Roscosmos.
Dr. Reibaldi will participate in the open panel discussion “Legal aspects of exploration, extraction and utilization of space resources”.
The Conference will be open and will be broadcasted live.
Link:rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2
Q&A room:https://ivamcu.invs.ru/#join:t67d9838b-832f-4c40-a2d7-375eef97048c

13:00-13:00 CEST

Opening Remarks from the moderators:
Mr. Vasiliy Gudnov, Head of Multilateral Cooperation Division of the State Space Corporation “Roscosmos”
Mr. Anatoly Petrukovich, Director of Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

13:10-13:13 CEST

Introduction, Conference goals (Video)

13:13-13:23 CEST

Welcoming speech from the Deputy Director General for International Cooperation of the State Space Corporation “Roscosmos”
Mr. Sergey Saveliev

13:23-13:30 CEST

Welcoming speech from the Director General of the UAE Space Agency
Mr. Mohammed Nasser Al Ahbabi

13:30-13:35 CEST

Current issues relating to exploration, extraction and utilization of space resources in terms of international space law (Video)

13:35-15:30 CEST

OPEN PANEL DISCUSSION: “Legal aspects of exploration, extraction and utilization of space resources”
Participants:
Mr. Mike N. Gold, Acting Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mr. Xu Hongliang, Secretary General of the China National Space Administration
Mr. Mathias Link, Director of International Affairs & SpaceResources.lu of the Luxembourg Space Agency, Ministry of the Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Mr. Giuseppe Reibaldi, President of the Moon Village Association, Executive Secretary of the Hague Space Resources Governance Working Group
Mr. Humbulani Mudau, Chief Director for Space Science and Technology of the Department Science and Innovation of the Republic of South Africa
Mr. Alexey Dronov, Deputy Director of the Legal Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Mr. Naser Al Rashedy, Director of National Space Policy and Regulation of the UAE Space Agency
Mr. Keiji Kitamura, Director of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Moscow Office

15:30-15:45 CEST

Q&A Session

15:45-16:00 CEST

Closing remarks

Webinar: What would it mean to give 'Legal Personhood' to the Moon?
2020-08-18 10:00 - 11:15 (Europe/Paris)
Join a live webinar on the 18th August as part of National Science Week to hear amazing speakers: Alice Gorman, Donna Lawler, Gabrielle Harris Dr Michelle Maloney & Ceridwen Dovey discuss this pertinent question.
We’re excited to launch this third Public Forum on the Moon event in collaboration with Annie Handmer, and Satellite Applications Catapult for Moon Village Association
This initiative has been supported by Inspiring Australia as part of National Science Week.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-would-it-mean-to-give-legal-personhood-to-the-moon-tickets-112993562788

Governance of Global Moon exploration and settlement – Episode 2: Operating with Due Regard, Avoiding Harmful Interference, and Establishing Safety Zones
2020-08-06 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
Humanity will soon be returning to the Moon through the individual and cooperative efforts of multiple space agencies and private companies around the world. This new era of lunar exploration will witness resource extraction, energy generation, habitat construction, and, in time, a growing permanent international human presence on our Moon with everything that human settlements bring.
The community of space lawyers and policymakers have responded to this new reality on multiple fronts and have produced a number of instruments including (i) the upcoming UNCOPUOS General exchange of Views on Potential Legal Models for Activities in Exploration, Exploitation, and Utilization of Space Resources, (ii) NASA’s Artemis Accords, (iii) The Hague Building Blocks for the Development of an International Framework on Space Resource Activities, and (iv) the Moon Village Principles regarding Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity. Of course, all of these initiatives exist against the background of existing international law.These webinars will invite all stakeholders to learn about these various initiatives and to contribute their thoughts to the conversation. The webinar explains how each of these initiatives fulfills a different role in laying the legal groundwork for future lunar activity. These initiatives complement one another and combine to create a path toward an international legal ecosphere that will facilitate the success of the current lunar projects, while at the same time addressing the needs of the international community.
This second episode will address some of the central issues that hover above humanity’s return to the Moon:

What constitutes operating “with due regard to the corresponding interests” of other nations as required under the Outer Space Treaty?
What constitutes “harmful interference”, is such interference permitted, and how can it be avoided?
Can “safety zones” be used by space actors to help prevent harmful interference? How will the parameters of safety zones be determined? What exactly would be the legal nature of these safety zones?

Registrations:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/governance-of-global-moon-exploration-and-settlement-episode-2-tickets-114387118952
Register to participate in the webinar or watch live on the MVA Facebook Page.
The admission in the webinar will be on a first come first served basis.
Speakers:

Mike Gold, Acting Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations, NASA
Marius Piso, President and CEO, Romanian Space Agency
Mark J. Sundahl, Director, Global Space Law Center, Cleveland State University
George Danos, President, Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation
Giuseppe Reibaldi, President, Moon Village Association

Moderator:
Antonino Salmeri, SGAC
Agenda:

4:30 – 4:35 Introduction (Giuseppe Reibaldi)
4:35 – 4:45 The Lunar Legal Ecosphere (Mark J. Sundahl)
4:45 – 5:05 The Artemis Accords and the Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activities (Mike Gold)
5:05 – 5:20 The Importance of Finding a Common Level Playing Field for Lunar Activities (Marius Piso)
5:20 – 5:25 1st Online Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium Outlook (George Danos)
5:25 – 5:45 Audience Q&A (Moderator: Antonino Salmeri, SGAC)
5:45 – 5:50 Conclusions (Giuseppe Reibaldi)

Mike Gold
Mr. Mike Gold currently serves as the Acting Associate Administrator for NASA’s Office of International and Interagency Relations. He is also responsible for providing strategic direction to the Office of General Counsel and supporting NASA’s LEO Commercialization efforts. Prior to joining NASA, Mr. Gold was the Vice President of Civil Space at MAXAR Technologies, and was also General Counsel for the company’s Radiant Solutions Business Unit. Additionally, Mr. Gold spent 13 years at Bigelow Aerospace where he established the company’s Washington office, oversaw the launches of its Genesis 1 and 2 spacecraft, and received a team award from NASA for his contributions to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module.
Marius Piso
Mr. Marius–Ioan Piso is the President and Executive Director of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA). He is a leading figure in space science in Romania. As an early science and technology professional, he contributed to the establishment and leadership of the Romanian Space Agency, the Institute for Space Science and the national research and development programmes in space, aeronautics and security. He is active in promoting international cooperation in space science and technology at the level of the European Union, the United Nations and other international organisations. He contributed to the development of a national research, industrial and political space community and managed the successful accession of Romania as a Member State of the European Space Agency.

SOLD OUT - Governance of Global Moon exploration and settlement - Episode 1: Best Practices
2020-06-30 17:00 - 18:15 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
The event is SOLD OUT. Watch the webinar on our Facebook Page.
Humanity will soon be returning to the Moon through the individual and cooperative efforts of multiple space agencies and private companies around the world. This new era of lunar exploration will witness resource extraction, energy generation, habitat construction, and, in short, a growing permanent international human presence on our Moon with everything that human settlements bring.
The community of space lawyers and policymakers have responded to this new reality on multiple fronts and have produced a number of instruments including (i) the coming UNCOPUOS General exchange of Views on Potential Legal Models for Activities in Exploration, Exploitation, and Utilization of Space Resources, (ii) The Hague Building Blocks for the Development of an International Framework on Space Resource Activities, (iii) the Moon Village Principles on Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Practices, and (iv) NASA’s Artemis Accords. Of course, all of these initiatives exist against the background of existing international law.
These webinars will invite all stakeholders in humanity’s return to the Moon to learn about these various initiatives and to offer their thoughts to the conversation. In the webinars, it will be explained how each of these initiatives fulfills a different role in laying the legal groundwork for future lunar activity — but they each also complement one another and combine to create a path forward in creating an international legal ecosphere that will facilitate the success of the current lunar projects, while at the same time addressing the needs of the international community.
The first episode, “Governance of Global Moon exploration and settlement – Episode 1: Best Practices”, provides an introductory glimpse at the Moon exploration and settlement global political landscape, including an overview of the Moon Village Principles and the relevant legal and political instruments.
Watch live on Facebook or join the waiting list.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/governance-of-global-moon-exploration-and-settlement-episode-1-tickets-109945199050
Agenda:

5:00 – 5:10 – Introduction (Giuseppe Reibaldi)
5:10 – 5:25 – The Moon global political landscape (John B. Sheldon)
5:25 – 5:40 – Moon Village Principles as Best Practices (Mark J. Sundahl)
5:40 – 5:45 – Outlook on future episodes
5:45 – 6:05 – Discussion (Moderator: Antonino Salmeri, SGAC)
6:05 – 6:10 – Conclusions

Speakers:
Dr. John B. SheldonDr. John B. Sheldon is the founder of the forthcoming Lunapolitics.com and regularly consults on space policy issues for governments and companies around the world. John has extensive experience in space policy issues as an academic, policy maker, and entrepreneur, and founded Astropolitics journal published by Taylor & Francis and SpaceWatch.Global published by ThorGroup GmbH.
Prof. Mark J. SundahlMark J. Sundahl is a Professor of Law at Cleveland State University and serves as the Director of the Global Space Law Center. Prof. Sundahl is a leading expert on the law of outer space and focuses primarily on the business, legal, and policy issues arising from the recent increase in private space activity. He is currently a member of NASA’s Regulatory and Policy Committee as well as a member of the Moon Village Association.

MVA Webinar: What we talk about when we talk about the Moon?
2020-06-23 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
MVA Webinar hosted by the Cultural Considerations Working Group
Agenda:

Introduction- Remo Rapetti
Prof. Stefano Catucci: “What we talk about when we talk about the Moon”
Michelle Hanlon, Co-Founder and President, For All Moonkind:” Why protect the bootprints? A look at the legal and social issues that intersect the past and the future”

Arthur Woods will lead the discussion.

Speakers:
Prof. Stefano Catucci, University of RomeProf. Catucci teaches Aesthetics in the Faculty of Architecture and is the author of the book “Learning from the Moon” (Quodlibet, Rome, 2013. The book is available only in Italian). The book analyzes the paradoxes of the imminent transformation of the Moon into a museum and tries to better understand the logic of tourism and our fetishistic relation with the remnants of our past.
Michelle Hanlon, Co-Founder and President, For All Moonkind:For All Moonkind, Inc. is a non-profit organization that seeks to protect each of the six human lunar landing and similar sites in outer space as part of our common human heritage. Website: https://www.forallmoonkind.org/
Register to participate in the webinar or watch live on Facebook.
To register:
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MVA & SGAC Webinar: Shifted lunar perspectives on habitats and women on the Moon
2020-06-20 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online Event
The Moon Village Association is collaborating with the SGAC Our Giant Leap initiative on a an exciting interactive webinar.
Our distinguished Speaker, space architect Barbara Imhof, will share with you her insights on lunar exploration, future space missions and the place and role of women and diversity in it.
Register to participate in the webinar or watch live on Facebook.
Agenda:

General introduction to the webinar
Speaker Introduction
Lunar exploration, Moon Village Association, Future lunar missions
The place and role of women and diversity
Perception and Initiatives to improve diversity
Concluding message
Open session for Q&A

About Barbara Imhof
Dr. Barbara Imhof is an internationally active space architect, design researcher and educator. She is the co-founder and CEO of LIQUIFER Systems Group, an interdisciplinary team comprising engineers, architects, designers and scientists. LIQUIFER projects deal with spaceflight parameters such as with living with limited resources, minimal and transformable spaces and resource-conserving systems.
To register:
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MVA General Assembly
2020-06-19 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Zoom Call
The MVA General Assembly will take place via Zoom.
AGENDA

Introduction and Summary of one year of activities by the President
Report on the technical status of activities
Report of the Treasurer
Report of the Auditors
Discharge of the Board
Election of the Board and Auditors
Proposed changes to the Statute
Approval of the Bylaws
Future Plans
AOB

More information will follow.

Towards a Lunar Economy - SGAC Space Exploration Project Group Webinar
2020-05-13 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
Would you live and work in a..Moon Valley?
Then the next episode of our webinar series on the future of space exploration is for you!
Together with C Daniel Espejel from ispace and Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi from MVA we will discuss what does it take to start a Lunar economy, and how will it look like.
“Towards a Lunar Economy” will be live streamed on SGAC Space Exploration Goup Facebook Page , Moon Village Association Facebook Page and on MVA website on 13th of May at 6 pm CEST. Join us to ask your questions and participate in the discussion!

Participation of Emerging Space Countries (PESC) webinar
2020-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris) | Zoom Call
The Moon Village Association is launching a new international initiative to bring Emerging Space Countries and Non-Space Faring countries side by side with Space faring countries to cooperate for the Moon Village. The initiative is called Participation of Emerging Space Countries (PESC). PESC can be seen as a capacity building program, a consultation program and an opportunity for local and international new partnerships.
To learn more about the Moon Village and the PESC project join us in Thursday 16 April 2020 at 19:00 CEST for a two hours discussion via zoom. The webinar speakers are as follow:

Giuseppe Reibaldi (MVA President)
John Mankins (MVA Vice President)
Ghanim Alotaibi (PESC Project Manager)
Group from the participants of MV-PESC [Kuwait] that was held last year.

Zoom Link:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F122197095&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNFaTdgaH6Lf6pvoSQqcGDekqToPcw
Topic: Webinar MV-PESCTime: Apr 16, 2020 07:00 PM Paris
Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/122197095
Meeting ID: 122 197 095One tap mobile+13462487799,,122197095# US (Houston)+16699006833,,122197095# US (San Jose)
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For more information about the PESC project, please visit the following page:
https://moonvillageassociation.org/projects/participation-of-emerging-space-countries-pesc/

UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee - CANCELED
2020-04-03 17:00 UTC
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First MVA Participation in the UNCOPUOS Legal as an Observer
MVA Presentation will take place on Wednesday, April 1 and it will be a Statement and a Technical presentation about ‘Moon Village Principles as best practice for sustainable lunar operations”.
