Moon Village Association

MVA GNF at the IAC 2021, Dubai - Sustainable Lunar Activities - The way-forward
2021-10-28 16:30 - 17:30 (Asia/Dubai)
The Panel will discuss current issues related to achieving sustainable lunar activities. In particular the Global Expert Groupon Sustainable Lunar Activities (GEGSLA) initiated by the Moon Village Association will be presented. GEGSLA has beencreated to derisk future missions and increase international cooperation by defining common level playing field for futurelunar missions. GEGSLA is composed of multi stakeholders experts from government/space agency, industry, academia, civilsociety, international organizations and the public. Perspectives from several stakeholders will be presented during the paneltogether with a discussion and a Q&A session with the public

APRSAF-27 Side Event - The Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities: status and perspectives
2021-11-29 09:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Paris)
This panel event aims to engage APRSAF members with the work of the Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities (GEGSLA). The GEGSLA was established by the Moon Village Association in 2021, and will report to UN COPUOS in 2022. The event will give APRSAF members an opportunity to learn about GEGSLA’s approach and provide feedback which represents specific regional interests. Areas covered by expert panelists include information sharing, governance, safe operations, and interoperability.

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Cultural Considerations WG webinar: Space for Art
2021-11-30 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
The urgent push into space development within the private sector has stimulated debate about public access to space for non-astronauts and for cultural initiatives. The Moon Gallery Foundation has put art at the centre of establishing a significant place for the humanities by proposing the first lunar gallery, anticipated by 2025. As a preliminary test mission, they will be sending the work of 64 artists to the International Space Station in early 2022. The foundational team will discuss their motives, ambitions and planning for their pioneering projects. The talks will be followed by a Q&A session at the end.

Prof. Bernard Foing is the new President of Space Renaissance International and a former ESA Senior Scientist researching planetary science with a focus on the Moon and Mars and was Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1, the first European mission to the Moon. He has contributed to the Moon Village concept and collaborated with the ArtMoonMars Collective and is Executive Director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG).

Anna Sitnikova is an interior architect, speaker and art curator based in Amsterdam. She is a founding member, curator and the deputy-chair of the Moon Gallery Foundation. An elected expert on the Technical Committee on Cultural Utilisation of Space (ITACCUS) of the IAF, she is also on the Space Habitats Committee of the IAF. She is a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague and is a project leader at Studio Samira Boon, Amsterdam.

Elizaveta Glukhova is a graphic designer, researcher and media artist. A founding member of the Moon Gallery Foundation, she is co-curator and manager of the Moon Gallery. An artist and researcher at the ArtMoonMars collective, she is an elected expert at the Technical Committee on Cultural Utilisation of Space (ITACCUS) of the IAF. She is a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague and leads the Brand Identity & Design Studio SEED.

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MVA participation in APRSAF Space Policy and Law Working Group (SPLWG)
2021-12-01 06:00 - 07:30 UTC
MVA Vice President, John C. Mankins will represent the Moon Vilalge Association at the APRSAF Space Policy and Law Working Group (SPLWG).

This session will discuss and envisage how international governance should be to understand, share and mitigate the anticipated risks in future space domain taking into consideration the new space activities involving emerging space players in Asia-Pacific region. The session will have presentations focusing on views and opinions concerning space sustainability surrounding emerging public and commercial players in the region. As we recognize it would be important to work with emerging space faring nations to effectively implement the “soft law” where every stakeholders could observe, such as UN Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (LTS Guidelines), we aim to find out the challenges and possible international cooperation for ensuring the space sustainability through the discussion with speakers from Asia-Pacific region.

The specific topics in the session will include: 1) Future space activities in the Asia-Pacific region and anticipated risks and threats to the sustainable use of outer space; 2) LEO governance considering satellites mega-constellation, on-orbit servicing, which could result in risks such as increasing collision of satellites; and 3) Lunar governance considering how emerging countries and private sector could work sustainably in moon exploration and exploitation.

More info at https://www.aprsaf.org/working_groups/spl/

5th Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium
2021-12-06 08:00 - 2021-12-08 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
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Moon Village Design Hackathon 2021
2021-12-06 08:00 - 2021-12-08 17:00 UTC
The Moon Village Design Hackathon 2021 will take place during the 5th Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium, on December 06-08, 2021.

Moon Village Association Architecture Working Group - Winter 2021-2022 Workshop
2022-01-25 14:00 - 2022-01-27 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
The MVA Architectural Concepts and Considerations Working Group (WG) will hold its Winter 2021-2022 Workshop online next month.

The goal of this workshop is to advance concept, longer-term planning and cooperation for humanity vis-a-vis Earth’s Moon.

The objectives of the meeting will be to:(1) review the status of MVA Architecture WG studies (including the OASIS 2045 Case Study); (2) to review of the status of significant government lunar future plans and program developments during 2021; (3) to discuss the status of commercial and academic lunar plans and development; and, (4) to hold working discussions regarding the ongoing Architecture WG case study as a framework, and the global context of programs and activities. Special emphasis will be placed on emerging space countries and on the activities of the several MVA Institutional Members. The dates and times for the workshop will be as follows:Day 1: Tuesday, January 25, 2022. from 05:00 AM to 09:00 AM Pacific Time (from 14:00 CET in Europe, and from 22:00 Tokyo Time)Day 2: Wednesday, January 26, 2022; from 05:00 AM to 09:00 AM Pacific TimeDay 3: Thursday, January 27, 2022, from 05:00 AM to 09:00 AM Pacific Time.Participation in the live event will be by invitation only due to space limitations in the zoom ‘conference room’, however the event will be recorded and made available later via the MVA website. A formal report from the workshop will be produced and posted to the MVA website later in the Spring. (For your information, the report from last year’s MVA Architecture Working Group meeting is available here: https://moonvillageassociation.org/architecture-working-group-2020-workshop-final-report/.)If you would like to attend, please RSVP to the co-chairs of the MVA Architecture WG, John C. MANKINS (john.c.mankins@moonvillageassociation.org) and Prof. Yoshifumi INATANI (inatani.y@gmail.com). If you would like to make a presentation at this workshop in January, please send a proposed title and short abstract (200-300 words) to the WG co-chairs (see above for emails) as soon as possible, but not later than January 10, 2022. (Please be aware that consideration will be given to MVA individual members and Institutional Member representatives in finalizing the program.)Decisions on attendance, speakers and the program will be finalized and posted in early January 2022.

Cultural WG webinar: Spirituality and the Moon
2022-02-09 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Vienna)
The spiritual needs of space enthusiasts and future Moon workers and settlers need to be addressed as the settlement of the Moon advances. This webinar will explore possible whys and hows.

Agenda:

Introduction – Remo RapettiFuturist Moonlight Meditations – Giulio PriscoSacred space – Catherine NewellPeak of Eternal Light – Jorge Mañes RubioQ&A session – Arthur Woods

Giulio Prisco is a former space engineer and senior manager at European space administrations. In his book “Futurist spaceflight meditations” (2021), Prisco covers spaceflight and human expansion into space, with a special emphasis on cultural and spiritual aspects. Prisco’s thesis is that human expansion into the solar system, starting with outposts on the surface of the Moon and in cislunar space, is a cornerstone of emerging future spirituality. This new spirituality will, in turn, inform human expansion toward the stars.

Catherine Newell is a scholar of religion and science who is particularly interested in the intersections of science, technology, culture, and spirituality. In her book “Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and the Final Frontier,” Newell traces the cultural and spiritual roots of US space exploration programs and argues that they were mainly inspired by a technological and scientific faith that awoke a deep-seated belief in a sense of divine destiny to reach the heavens.

Jorge Mañes Rubio is an artist whose works rethink humanity’s relationship with the universe and all the beings that live in it. As Artist in Residence at the Advanced Concepts Team ESA, Rubio designed a Moon Temple for a future lunar settlement in Shackleton Crater. The Moon Temple wouldn’t be associated with any specific religion. On the contrary, it would be open to everyone, in particular to the fast-growing category of people who describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.”

MVA Presentation at UN COPUOS STSC
2022-02-14 17:00 - 18:00 UTC

MVA Statement at UN-COPUOS STSC
2022-02-16 08:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris)
Live broadcast in the six UN languages

The Moon as Muse: Visions for Lunar Artistic Engagement
2022-03-15 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris)
The Moon has been a fountainhead of humanity’s time awareness beyond days and within seasons. Ancient artwork around the world testifies to the deep origins of our cultural relationship to our satellite world. The sheer volume of literature, music and art about the Moon would take a massive undertaking to catalog across time and cultures. In this webinar, we will focus on how the Moon inspires each panelist, with an eye toward lunar artistic engagement that couples with wider audiences and with space agencies. What does lunar artistic engagement look like in the late Space Age and on a human-settled Moon? Tune in for provocative and beautiful work.

AGENDA

Introduction – Remo RapettiCountdown: Biruni-Galileo-Apollo – Pantea KarimiMission Laureates: Further Thoughts – Christopher CokinosA New Aesthetics of the Moon – Yuri TanakaImagining an Artist in Residence on the Moon – Lisa Pettibone and Julie Swarstad JohnsonQ&A session – Arthur Woods

Christopher Cokinos is the author or co-editor of several books, including, most recently, Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight, with poet Julie Swarstad Johnson. He’s at work on a book about the Moon. Poems and prose have appeared recently in Scientific American, The American Scholar, The Space Review, Astronomy.com and elsewhere. He’s an avid visual lunar observer with his 10-inch telescope.

Julie Swarstad Johnson is a poet who lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She is the author of the poetry collection Pennsylvania Furnace (Unicorn Press, 2019); with Christopher Cokinos, she co-edited of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (University of Arizona Press, 2020). She has served as Artist in Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park, which led to the chapbook Orchard Light (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). She works as the Archivist and Outreach Librarian for the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Pantea Karimi is a multidisciplinary artist incorporating VR, performative video, sound, traditional and digital print, and drawing. Her installations investigate and highlight personal narratives, political and societal issues, and Iran’s visual culture through the historic illustrated scientific documents. Karimi has exhibited internationally across a range of solo, group and traveling exhibitions and her work is included in public collections.

Lisa Pettibone is a visual artist working in sculpture, installation and print. Interested in natural forces such as gravity and tension, her work explores the evolution of form and is underpinned by concepts related to physics and astronomy. In 2018-2019, she was artist in residence at Mullard Space Science Laboratory where she studied the ESA’s Euclid Mission, a space telescope exploring the nature of dark matter in the universe and launching in 2022.

Yuri Tanaka is a researcher at Tokyo University of the Arts where she received her Ph.D., a visiting researcher at Kyoto City University of Arts, a visiting scientist at CERN, and the head of Cosmic Art Research Committee. She has been pursuing to create a diverse collaboration mediated by ‘the universe’ as a mutually acceptable idea among different experts. Her projects can be mostly found in public spaces or at art/science festivals.

Image: Moons of Naoshima by Takaharu Ito and Yuri Tanaka

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IAF GNF Event - The First International Moon Day in 2022
2022-03-29 18:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
The International Moon Day, was approved by the UN General Assembly in December 2021, to be celebrated every 20th of July, as from 2022. The International Moon Day has been proposed by the Moon Village Association and a Group within its organisation has been set up.The International Moon Day shall be celebrated thanks to a large spectrum of events, which will be organised with a top-down or bottom-up approach Worldwide. These will aim to reach the general public and younger generations through educational activities, but also the classical space communities, i.e. governments, agencies, industry, NGOs, scientificlaboratories, universities, and finance providers.The panelists will present the preliminary plan for its implementation, this will be followed by Q&A.Moderator:Giuseppe Reibaldi, President, Moon Village AssociationSpeakers:Nasr Alsahhaf, Chair, International Moon Day GroupDorin Prunariu, Member of the Board, Asteroid Day Foundation

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MVA Mexico webinar - Los desafíos de habitar la Luna
2022-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Mexico_City)
En este panel, se discutirán diferentes problemas y propuestas frente a los desafíos que trae consigo el habitar la luna. Al panel están invitados start ups y empresas Mexicanas, Mayan Space y Dereum Labs. Quienes actualmente se encuentran trabajando en proyectos relacionados con la Luna.

ENG. On this panel, we will discuss different problems and solutions to face the challenges of living in the moon. A Mexican start up and a new company are invited, Mayan Space and Dereum Labs. Which are currently working in projects related to the Moon.

List of speakers:

Sebastian Alba (Mayan Space)Carlos Mariscal (Dereum Labs)

Moderators:Roberto David Aleman RamosXitlali Chazez

Agenda:

Brief introducion of Moon Village AssociationPresentation of speakersSubject 1. Challenges of power generationSubject 2. TransportationSubject 3. protection against space weatherTentative Subject 4. psychological and social effects in humans.Questions from the public

Participate on Zoom:Meeting ID: 839 7278 9767Passcode: [REDACTED]

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Why Moon Exploration for Emerging Space Countries? And the Moon Village Oasis 2045
2022-04-27 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
The first webinar in a series organised by the MVA PESC project.Speakers:Ghanim AlotaibiJohn C. Mankins

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Egypt PESC Roadmap Progress toward the Moon
2022-05-23 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris)
The second webinar of the PESC Project.

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Speakers:MVA Egypt members

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Progress Toward the Vision of the Moon Village - MVA Activity Session at the ISDC 2022
2022-05-29 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax)
A session on MVA activities will take place at the upcoming International Space Development Conference (ISDC) 2022 in Arlington, VA (USA).

Agenda

10:00 am – Moon Village Architecture WG Case Study. John C. Mankins (Moon Village Association)10:20 am – The International Moon Day. Dr. Nasr Al-Sahhaf (Moon Village Association)10:45 am – NSS Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation11:00 am – Global Exploration Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities. Kate Calderwood (Moon VillageAssociation)11:15 am – Candidate Sites for Artemis Base Camp. Dr. Pascal Lee (Mars Institute, SETI Institute, & NASA Ames Research Center)11:40 am – Program for Energy Space Countries. Ghanim Alotaibi (Moon Village Association)

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COPUOS Side Event - Progressing Lunar Policy: a Round Table
2022-06-03 14:00 - 14:45 (Europe/Paris)
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84164682183

Organizers

Moon Village AssociationOpen Lunar FoundationSecure World FoundationSpace Generation Advisory Council

Moderation:

For All Moonkind (Michelle Hanlon)

Program (45 minutes):

Introduction by the moderatorOpening remarksRepresentatives of the organizing Permanent ObserversGiuseppe Reibaldi (Moon Village Association)Chelsea Robinson (Open Lunar Foundation)Ian Christensen (Secure World Foundation)Antonino Salmeri (Space Generation Advisory Council)Discussion between panelistsQuestions & Answers

Moon Village Association General Assembly
2022-06-16 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)

MVA Pakistan Webinar - Lunar Imaging & Data Processing
2022-06-25 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Karachi)
When: Jun 25, 2022 08:00 PM Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-qupzssGdMcFN_VR54OrcjPMCGu6fRXAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Agenda:

In this webinar our speaker is going to talk about his lunar imaging experience and share his techniques of lunar imaging and data processing.Image processing is a method to perform some operations on an image, in order to get an enhanced image or to extract some useful information from it.

Event details are mentioned below:

Speakers Full Name: Talha Moon Zia

Biography of Speaker:

Talha Moon Zia is a research astronomer at Exascale Open Data Analytics Lab- NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi & M.Phil. scholar at Institute of Space Science and Technology. University of Karachi.His lunar images featured at NASA’s Astronomical Picture of the Day (APOD) website and his work also get featured on different platforms including: European Sky Agency (ESA) photo community page, Forbes, Astronomy Magazine, spaceweather.com, Earthsky.org, media.inaf.it, Dawn newspaper, the News paper, photographingspace.com, in the newsletter of astronomical society of Durban,South Africa.He is also a member of Karachi Astronomers Society (KAS).

Organizer: Muhammad Rayan Khan – MVA National Coordinator of Pakistan

Some links of his work : Astronomy Picture of the Day 2022,

A bridge to the Moon, Opening opportunities for analog research in Colombia
2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The third webinar in the PESC Project webinar series.Speaker:Oscar Ojeda

Register on Zoom:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VaRownkIQleAka-5LvRCDw

PromoMoon Initative - Closing Session
2022-07-15 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
At the end of 2021, the Moon Village Association in cooperation with the leading Ukrainian space engineering company Yuzhnoye State Design Office organized the 1st PromoMoon Initiative for Moon Village Generation in honor of Dr. Alexander Degtyarev.

15 teams from 10 countries from around the world covering 3 different continents have participated in the competition – 4 startups, 5 young professional and scientist teams, and 6 student teams.

After receiving the proposals on novel ideas relating to lunar technologies, the PromoMooon Initiative has completed the 1st stage of evaluation and selected the top 10 projects:

https://moonvillageassociation.org/announcement-promomoon-initiative-in-partnership-with-yuzhnoye-state-design-office/

After the 2nd phase of evaluation and final selection, the international team of leading space experts selected the top 3 projects (in no particular order): Project / Team Name / Country:● Lunar building materials produced based on recycled space debris / startup Orbit Recycling / Germany● Technology to efficiently generate food and O2 and remove CO2 during space missions / startup Spira Inc. / USA● Volatile extraction technology on planetary surfaces / team of students VEPS / Germany

The winners received support for their research through voluntary and free-of- charge expert B2B mentorship and Q&A sessions that were held on June 28, 2022. All three finalists will also be provided with a spot to present their projects at the IAC-2022 during D3 or D4 technical sessions related to space exploration.

The closing session of the Initiative with awarding of finalists will be held on July15, 2022 (17:00 CET).

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The Initiative inspires the Moon Village Generation to develop ideas for future sustainable lunar activities and provides an opportunity to advance their engineering maturity level.

For more information about the Initiative:https://moonvillageassociation.org/announcement-promomoon-initiative-in-partnership-with-yuzhnoye-state-design-office/

International Moon Day 2022 - Inaugural Celebration
2022-07-20 00:00 - 23:59 UTC
The International Moon Day Group proudly announces the Inaugural Celebration of the International Moon Day (IMD) on July20, 2022 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, hosted by Drake State Community & Technical College, with sponsorship by the Marshall Association and Lockheed Martin Corporation.

We celebrate Humankind’s first steps on the Moon, as well as its return to explore a sustainable living environment, for the first time, from the place where a large part of the Apollo Program has its roots, in Huntsville, where the Marshall Space Flight Center is located. The celebrations will take place at Drake State Community & Technical College, at S.C. O’Neal Sr. Library and Technology Center, starting at 1:30 pm (Central Time).

For more information and live Stream: https://internationalmoonday.org/imd-inaugural-celebration/

MVA Jordan - JSRI Space Architecture Series: Designing Lunar Habitats
2022-08-05 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
JSRI is kicking off a Space Architecture webinar series as part of our ongoing competition! The series will feature distinguished space architects who will present their work and design considerations, giving competition participants a chance to learn from experts in the field and get guidance on their designs for JSRI’s space analog facility.

We are proud to announce our first invited speaker:

Dr. Samer El Sayary is an assistant professor of architecture, researcher, and award-winning architect with a passion for space architecture. Over the years, he has received many national and international awards (40 awards and prizes til 2021) from 4 different continents, including: 1st Prize Mars City design foundation (Los Angeles, 2017), Jacques Rougerie Foundation (Paris, 2016, 2018, 2020), Kuala Lumpur International Architectural Festival (Malaysia, 2019), 1st Prize Mediterranean scientific forum “MEDIBAT” (Tunisia, 2011), and Hasan Fathy Award for sustainable architecture (Egypt, 2011, 2013). His work has been exhibited at NASA Johnson Space Center and the United Nations Office For Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), as well as in France, Greece, Tunisia, and Malaysia to name a few. Dr. El Sayary has given workshops in 13 different countries with over 10,000 trainees during the last 20 years. He has given numerous public talks and been featured on the Discovery channel, Wired magazine, Forbes Middle East, TEDx BAU, as well as many others. He has also served as a jury member for various international design and architecture competitions for the Mars Society, IDS Cairo, BIM Africa, and more.

Join us for our first webinar this Friday at 5pm CEST to learn more about designing lunar habitats with Dr. El Sayary! The webinar series is open for everyone to join, however JSRI competition participants will be given priority to ask questions during the Q&A.

Zoom details will be shared through Eventbrite, register at tiny.cc/jsri-series

The series will be moderated by Sahba El-Shawa, JSRI founder and national coordinator for Jordan in the Moon Village Association as well as the Space Generation Advisory Council.

Stay tuned as we announce more speakers over the coming month!

MVA Pakistan - Opportunity to focus on upcoming lunar missions as a writer
2022-08-18 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Title of Event : Opportunity to focus on upcoming lunar missions as a writerSpeaker Name : Brett HoffstadtDate & Time: Aug 18, 2022 02:00 PM Greenwich Mean TimeRegistration Link : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuf-irpzgsEtMRvI26hXYEn3dxTlicURuv

About Speaker :

Brett Hoffstadt is a multi-disciplinary engineer, project manager, and author with 4 aviation patents and over 20 years of experience in the aerospace industry. Since 2014, he has channeled his passions for STEM education and outreach, mentoring, and books into creating original books on world-changing STEM topics. His first book is “How To Be a Rocket Scientist: 10 Powerful Tips to Enter the Aerospace Field and Launch the Career of Your Dreams.” His other books include “Exploring Smart Cities Activity Book for Kids” and “Goodnight Moon Base.”

In this presentation and discussion, Brett will talk about his journey of introducing the opportunities of space and aviation to a wider community, and how writing can be a unique and powerful opportunity for people to enter the space community.

MVA Jordan - JSRI Space Architecture Series
2022-08-26 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
This Friday we will be hosting the third webinar in our Space Architecture Series this month as part of our ongoing competition!

The series features space architects presenting their work and design considerations, giving our competition participants a chance to learn from experts in the field and get guidance on their ongoing designs for JSRI’s space analog facility.

We are pleased to announce our third invited speaker and long-time collaborator:

Leszek Orzechowski is an architect and founder of Space is More – a space architecture company that also runs Lunares Research Station – a European analog habitat. Leszek is an enthusiastic science advocate with hundreds of lectures presented to the public and an award-winning designer. His group created a number of scientific reports on the future manned Moon and Mars missions presented during international competitions and conferences. Space is More was a part of a winning team in ESA – European Space Agency Moon Challenge for a report on returning to the Moon in the next decade and a finalist of NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3d-Printed Habitat Challenge phase 1 from 2015. The team won multiple architectural awards for Mars bases and habitats including Marsception (2018) and Mars Colony Design Competition (2019). Currently, Leszek is leading operations and research at LunAres Research Station.

Join us for our webinar this Friday at 6pm EEST (Jordan time) to learn more about space analogs around the world! The webinar series is open for everyone to join, however JSRI competition participants will be given priority to ask questions during the Q&A. Zoom details will be shared through Eventbrite so make sure to register before the event at: tiny.cc/jsri-series

The series will be moderated by Sahba El-Shawa, JSRI founder and national coordinator for Jordan in the Moon Village Association as well as the Space Generation Advisory Council.

Stay tuned as we announce our final speaker for the series!

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83388553102

Cultural WG webinar - Space Design For A New Extra-Terrestrial Human Being
2022-09-15 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
with Annalisa Dominoni & Benedetto Quaquaro

Introduction by Remo Rapetti, Q&A session by Arthur Woods

Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 17.30 CEST

Why “Space Design”? We believe space today, and in the future, will have an ever more decisive influence on the daily life, behaviours and performance of people, and, consequently, on the transformative capacity of private companies to generate innovation and new business models, thanks to the strategic contribution of design. “Go to space” is the new aspirational dream.

Design is visionary, design is innovation, and act as a “bridge” between science and beauty, speaking the different languages of engineering, technology, but also culture, art and economy, keeping at the centre the needs of people, with the aim of increasing the well-being of living space and extreme environments looking at the “human sensible factors”.

In this webinar is presented the new emerging discipline of “Space Design” in between space and earth that anticipates the scenario of the future human space missions: if astronauts feel better in a comfortable environment, considering physiological, psychological, and emotional factors, their performance, and the success of the whole mission increase.

The speakers, thanks to their more than twenty-year experience in researching and designing for space at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, as extra-terrestrial habitation modules and tools that have been used by astronauts on-board the International Space Station (ISS), have helped assert design’s role and purpose in the space field. They created and are leading currently at the School of Design the 1st and unique course in space design called “Space4InspirAction” recognized and supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) in which research and teaching are strongly connected with industry to create a dialogue between space technology and productive knowledge and generate innovation.

Both PhDs, architects, designers and professors, they founded the studio (a+b) in Milan with the aim of doing design by combining research and technological innovation with poetry. They regularly collaborate with leading international space agencies and industries and major design companies, at the same time they conduct research activities at the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano, together with teaching and publishing essays on the culture of the project that have contributed to affirming the strategic role of design in Space.

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IAC2022 - Session D4.2: Contribution of Moon Village to Solving Global Societal Issues
2022-09-19 10:15 - 12:45 (Europe/Paris)
LocationRoom E06B

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi, Moon Village Association (MVA), Austria;Co-Chair: Prof. Yu Lu, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China, China;Rapporteur: Ms. Paivi Jukola, Aalto University, Finland;

Link

https://iafastro.directory/iac/browse/IAC-22/D4/2/

During the Session, the papers “The first International Moon Day and its contribution to Peaceful Lunar Exploration and Utulisation” by Dr. Nasr Alsahhaf, “Emerging Space Countries and the Future of Lunar Exploration” by Mr. Ghanim Alotaibi and “PromoMoon Initiative: Capacity-building activity for New Space market development on lunar technologies” by Ms. Bernadette Detera will be presented.

IAC2022 - Session E3.2: The future of space exploration and innovation
2022-09-19 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
LocationRoom E04B

Description

Technological innovation, new policies and initiatives have allowed public and private actors to once again focus their energy on space exploration ventures. this session provides an opportunity to discuss the changing space exploration context and current challenges and opportunities for future space activities in this domain.

Linkhttps://iafastro.directory/iac/browse/IAC-22/E3/2/

During the session, the paper “The Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities (GEGSLA) contribution to the International Lunar Governance definition” will be presented, by Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi

IAC2022- Moon Village Association Open Floor Meeting
2022-09-20 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Paris)
Location

Room 721/722

The Moon Village Association (MVA) invites everyone to the in-person MVA Open Floor Meeting during the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris on 20th September.Get to know the latest activities of MVA, meet and network with MVA members and partners. This event is open to everyone – both members and non-members.

We look forward to seeing you in IAC!

Agenda:

10:00-10:10 Opening/Ingress10:10-10:20 Welcome remarks10:20-10:35 MVA Highlights and Updates (year 2021 to 2022)10:35-10:50 IMD 2022 Highlights10:50-10:55 Invitation to MVA 2022 WS&S; Announcement of PromoMoon 202310:55-11:00 Opportunities/Vacancies at MVA11:00-11:05 Group Photo11:05-11:25 Open Forum/Networking11:25-11:30 Closing/Egress

IAC2022 - Press Conference: The First The International Moon Day - 20 July 2022
2022-09-21 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
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The Moon Village Association considers that the peaceful exploration and utilisation of the Moon is the next step for humanity in opening new perspectives related to economic, cultural, and inspirational goals. The Moon has huge benefits to offer to humanity, but these must be shared between all countries and involve space and non-space industries. Humanity needs to work together to reach this goal with all stakeholders, including governments, industry, academia, international organisations, and the public. MVA proposed at the United Nations Committee on the Use of Outer Space the celebration of the International Moon Day on 20 July. This was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2021.Because MVA has been an early advocate of the concept of the International Moon Day (IMD) celebration, MVA is taking the initiative to organize its implementation. The goals of the IMD are fully in line with the MVA mission and objectives to promote the development of lunar exploration in addressing the largest public, scientific, educational, and industrial communities. The theme of the IMD for 2022 is “Lunar Exploration Coordination and Sustainability”. The celebration is involving either “bottom up” events organized at national level as well as “top down” event organized on a global scale. The roundtable shall discuss the achievements of the first year celebration held on 20 July 2022 and the plan for next year.

SpeakersDr. Nasr AlsahhafDr. Dorin PrunariuProf. Simonetta Di Pippo

ModeratorDr. Giuseppe Reibaldi

More Info:https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2022/media-partners/press-conferences/the-first-international-moon-day-20-july-2022.html
