On Friday, March 2nd 2018, the Moon Village Association (MVA) presented its plans to the Industry Day of the second International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF2), organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The MVA, the only independent international, Non-Governmental…
First MVA Press Release distributed during the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at the United Nations
The Moon Village is the ensemble of all efforts from private, governmental and general public, aiming to explore and use the moon in a sustainable manner. It is not a literal village on the moon, it is not an “ISS on…
The Moon Village Association invited to the 2nd International Space Exploration Forum Side Event for Industry “I-ISEF” on 2 March 2018
The Moon Village Association (MVA) is the only independent, international, non-governmental organization to be invited by JAXA to participate in the ISEF 2 Side Event for Industry « I-ISEF » and will join the Panel Discussion on Space Exploration Businesses on 2 March 2018 at The Westin Tokyo.
MVA International Moon Village Workshop Final Report
This is the MVA International Moon Village Workshop Final Report produced in November 2017 in Strasbourg. Click here to download the report.
Op-ed | Next stop: the moon
Op-ed by Giuseppe Reibaldi on SpaceNews.com The International Space Station has been a tremendous political and technical success. However, the ISS program is coming to an end in the next few years, although government players such as the NASA, ESA,…
Trump shoots for the Moon
US President Donald Trump has promised to assert US leadership in space exploration. Trump authorized acting NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot Jr to lead an innovative program to send American astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars. But the…
Successful First International Moon Village Workshop at ISU
This week, more than 150 experts, engineers, educators and students from around the world gathered in Strasbourg, France to participate in the first International Moon Village Workshop. The Workshop was jointly organized by the recently-formed Moon Village Association (MVA) and…
MVA presents its first paper at the IAC in Adelaide, Australia
Read here the first MVA paper presented at the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. Read the paper
International Moon Village Workshop, November 2017
The MVA together with the International Space University (ISU), are planning the 1st International Moon Village Workshop between the 19-21st of November 2017 at the ISU campus, in Strasbourg, France. This workshop will be interdisciplinary in scope and will be focussed around the production of a series of deliverables related to different aspects of the Moon Village that could be presented to the (ISEF) in Tokyo, March 2018 and to UNISPACE+50, in Vienna, June 2018.