President’s Words The Moon Village Association is becoming well known in the world. We have presented the Association in many international events such as COPUOS technical subcommittee last February, the ISEF2-I in Tokyo in March as well as the IAF…
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…
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…
Moon Village Principles A fundamental element for the Moon Village implementation are the “Moon Village Principles”, issued in December 2018, define, for the first time, the boundaries of the Moon Village Principles: Principle 1: Adhere to applicable International Rules and…
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,…
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…
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…
Read here the first MVA paper presented at the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. Read the paper
