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| What\'s_a_Blue_Moon? From Sky and Telescope magazine. Explains what it is and when the phenomenon happens. |
| Woman_in_the_Moon Several features of lunar landscape combined can be seen as a profile of a woman. |
| AstroSpider Solar system and deep sky galleries, remote images, images of satellites, and equipment information. |
| The_Falcon\'s_Nest Personal notes from an enthusiast, images, and radio frequencies and voice. |
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| Jonathan\'s_Space_Report Issued twice a month, and describes all space launches, including piloted missions and automated satellites. |
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| NASA_SkyWatch A tool that helps you know when or where to look to see the station or other spacecraft in the night sky. |
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| SoCal_Sky_Lights Schedule for rocket launches with information for iridium flares, meteor showers, ISS and space shuttle, and delta launches. |
| Tiger_Map_Server Map service to find their exact latitude and longitude of observing area location. |
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The
MOON Museum
Benjamin
Britton, Executive Producer, Project Director
Troy
Gerth, Moon Museum Director, Chief Modeler
Derrick
Woodham, Artistic Director
Bruce
Damer, Event Producer
Ken
Rhee, Associate Director
Post-literary
narrative techniques explore 3d chat and interactive role playing as a
metaphor for human experience
in cyberspace. High performance game engines are blended with
open-standard interactive 3d to create mutual reality. We explore
interactive composition in multiuser environments for the purpose of fine
art. Join other people over the Web and explore this lunar aerospace
museum on the south pole of a mutual
reality moon. Find a meaningful place in cyberspace, be yourself
and also be a part of the human family.
From
Sputnik to the rockets and shuttles of today, our history in space is interconnected
politically, socially and emotionally. The content of The MOON Museum
is vast, encompassing more than 200 custom designed models. However,
this small figure is about half the number needed to portray the proliferation
of vehicles and launch systems created by seven nations in over forty years
of space flight history. The momentum of human space endeavor has
not eased if you consider that since 1997, when construction of our MOON
Museum began, the world has seen the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Polar
Lander, Clementine, Prospector, CZ-01, Deep Space 1, Giotto, Shuttle missions,
Arianne V, Mir Missions and the beginning of the International Space Station.
All these models and many more are here to explore at The MOON Museum,
and many are linked interactively through our customized web browser to
web pages with history and information about each craft.
The
success of The MOON Museum is attested by its many guests from all over
the world who visit together in Web-3d space to experience this virtual
museum. The pride, wonder and passion for space exploration and discovery
know no nationalistic limits, nor are these traits the purview of any race
besides that of the human one. Here you can find that the exploration
of space is a great endeavor shared by all people, a challenge and opportunity
so exciting that we all seem drawn into dreaming of space travel.The
MOON Museum is virtually located at the Moon's South Pole in the year
3000 AD. It is dedicated to our first century in outer space.
The layout of The MOON Museum is divided into seven major areas:
NASA, Booster Park, Russia, Map Room, Explorers, Edge of Space and the
Apollo Landing Site. These different areas give you a framework to
the sights within. Historical accuracy is observed in every detail
of the models used, though it must be understood that these are 3d models,
not the real spacecraft themselves, that you will experience in this virtual
space.
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NASA
This
area includes many of the achievements of the United States in space.
Examples of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab vehicles can be closely
examined. Each exhibit features web links for further information
on select missions. This is the primary information area for The
MOON Museum with links to event transcripts and the history of lunar exploration.
Teleport
Booster
Park
Directly
adjacent to NASA, Booster Park contains actual full-scale replicas of the
most important heavy lifting rockets. Here are the famous rocket
boosters from the United States, Russia, England, France, China and Japan.
Here also rests a model of the massive Russian SS-6 next to a comparably
vast US Delta, and a French Arianne next to one of the mythically ill-fated
Russian N1 boosters. Only in this Booster Park can you see these rare rockets
placed together on exhibit side by side. Teleport
Russia
A
gothic dome covers the Russian section in order to house the immense Soviet
space stations of the cold war. This area documents the contributions
of the Russian people to space flight, from Sputnik to Vostok 1.
Russian space exploration boasts many firsts, including the first satellite
in space. Included here is a model of the LK-01 lunar lander that
might have carried mankind to the Moon before Apollo 11, if history had
been just a little different. Hovering near the great dome's exterior
is the Mir space station. Teleport
The
Map Room
From
Mir, one can see the first of the three connected domes of the Map Room.
Inside the Map Room are models of all the planets of our solar system.
Images from many of the scientific probes that have explored the planets
are included. Detailed globes of the Earth and Moon highlight this
area. Soon the Map Room will link to detailed information about each
world of our solar system and the Moon. Teleport
Explorers
A
short walk from the Map Room is the Explorers Area. This area houses
a few of the huge number of probes and satellites that the nations of the
Earth have used to explore our solar system for more than four decades.
Clementine, Voyager, Veneras9 and many others are on display here.
The top floor of Explorers features the recent efforts of the Chinese to
send a person into space. The prototype and the flown versions of
the CZ-01 nearly fill the top floor. When the Chinese put a Taikonaut
into space we will open an eighth gallery to this museum. Teleport
The
Edge of Space
This
area explores some of humanity's first flights upward into space.
A German V2 rocket, though designed for destruction, is the direct predecessor
of the Saturn V. The lifting body designs of the X-planes have reemerged
in the next generation of Shuttles. The craft that took Chuck Yeager
past the sound barrier is represented here, the famous Bell X-1 with the
historic, ultrasonic SR-71 flier next to it. Teleport
The
Apollo Landing Site
Last
but not least in this gallery of areas is the Apollo Landing Simulation
area. Here are included representations of a Lunar Module, astronauts
and several of the tools from the American efforts of the 1960's and 1970's.
This part of the Museum is not contained within any walls, to give you
some sense of the "magnificent desolation" of being on the Moon's surface
that Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin described. He landed here with Neil Armstrong,
and they became the first people to set foot on the actual Moon.
It was also here that we celebrated the thirtieth
anniversary of the first Moon Landing, with a virtual reenactment of
the Apollo Moon landing with guest of honor Rusty Schweikart and over 200
visitors together at our Museum's Gala Opening. Teleport
The
Avatars in the MOON Museum represent individuals who had an impact
on the time considered the golden age of space exploration - the era of
the 1969 landing on the Moon of Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
Some, like Kennedy and Brezhnev, directly affected the race to space.
Others like Monroe and Lennon were important to the spirit of the time.
New avatars will soon have their time in MOON, such as Goddard, King, Blouford,
Korelev and Tereshkova. Many of the avatars have artificially intelligent
personalities; these also we expect to develop further as the MOON
Museum grows in the twenty first century.
The
MOON Museum is always open free of charge to all, so everyone can share
awareness of our common heritage in space travel. This is a work
of art, dedicated to the public welfare and the memory of the achievements
of great people working together.
Install
- The MOON Museum web browser
Go
to: http://moon.uc.edu/install1.htm
