NOTE: AM workshops run generally 10:00 am to 12:30 am but some may start at 9 am.
NOTE: PM workshops run generally 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm but some may run to 6:00 pm

ARTIST & EDUCATORS WORKSHOPS WITH FEES

Regolith Impressionist Painting 2 hours. - Crystal Room - FRI AM
$30 fee includes experiment media: metal oxides, sodium silicate, glass panes, frame)
This workshop will be held only if there are two or more pre-registered for it by May 1st, 1998
Director Peter Kokh, developer of “simulated moondust paints” made by blending metal oxide pigment powders with liquid sodium silicate “waterglass”, all ingredients processible out of lunar regolith moondust. First painting produced 9/29/’94.Works created in this workshop will be displayed in the Lunar Homestead Show (or the ISDC art show if the artist wishes to put them up for sale) for the balance of the conference, participants taking them home at the end of the conference. Not held - too few registrations

BUSINESS WORKSHOPS

(NO FEE but no transient auditing, please. Come at the beginning, and stay for the duration.)

“The Foundry” A 4 part all-day SAT/SUN Business Workshop
(You DO NOT HAVE TO attend all four sessions)
Cosponored by Wisconsin Space Business Roundtable and the Huntsville Alabama L5 chapter of NSS.
For anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit who wants to find a primary or sideline business that contributes in some way to the opening of space. Workshop will include:

• a Broad Specturm Menu of Space-Related Businesses Opportunities [available prior to ISDC (a) by SASE to “Menu” c/o Peter Kokh, 1630 N. 32nd St., Milwaukee WI 53208-2040. (b) Pre-published in MMM # 113 March ‘98.]
• the “Spin-up” route to space-related enterprise business plans
• How to make a Business Plan
• Where to go for Expertise
• Where to go for Financial Assistance

PROJECT-LAUNCHING WORKSHOPS - NO FEE

(NO FEE but no transient auditing, please. Come at the beginning, and stay for the duration.)

• Project HavenFerret: Radar Detection of Lunar Lavatubes FRI PM a project to search for near-surface lavatubes on the Moon’s nearside. Directors Tom Billings, Bryce Walden . Post ISDC renamed the Lunar Lavatube Locator Project.
  
• Founding “U-LuCy”: the University of Luna in Cyberspace - SAT PM. U-LuCy would have online “departments” to cover all areas in which we need to jump start the technologies and programs needed to open the lunar frontier settlement economy in timely fashion. Undergraduate level curiculum development. Graduate level assistance with doctoral theses selection and development. Keeping track of research done, research underway, and critical research in need of attention. Outline of the website; “faculty”; promotion; sponsorship. All interested parties welcome.Director: Peter Kokh. Post ISDC Note: this will be developed into a website project.
  NOTE: This workshop will happen, if the ISDC Chair has to drop everything and direct himself. but Director wanted KokhMMM@aol.com
  
• Commercial Space Legislation Workshop FRI PM
  directed by Gordon Woodcock with Charles Miller, David Anderman, Mark Hopkins
  
• Constructing an NSS Chapters Central Resource Exchange SUN PM Director Ronnie Lajoie. Post ISDC Note: Website to be developed by Ronnie Lajoie and Peter Kokh
  Agenda: Find a Server, Webmaster, Web Team, and Funds for a new Web Site to pool NSS Chapter Resources.
  Proposed Web Site Contents (Web team members needed for each):
  • Chapter produced Cable Access Videos with availability info
  • Chapter produced Slide Sets, and 3) Transparency Sets
  • Chapter produced informational flyers
  • Speakers Bureau with individual travel limits
  • Educational and Outreach Projects
  • Chapter Display systems, blueprints, instructionsClassified Ads: Assistance/collaboration Wanted; Assistance/collaboration Available
  • Newsletter listing; Coop Newsletters with group subscription information
  • Chapter Webpages

OTHER TECHNICAL & NON-TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS - NO FEE

(NO FEE but no transient auditing, please. Come at the beginning, and stay for the duration.)

• Constructing a Chapter Web Homepage SUN AM
  Do’s and Don’ts; what to put on your homepage - some online models
  How to use your Chapter Homepage to “grow” your chapter
  Director: Richard A. Brown
  
• Space Frontier Constitutions SUN AM
  Director: David Schrunk, Science Law Institute
  
  • 10-20 minute presentation on constitutional standards for the legislative branch of government, followed by 10-20 minute discussion period,
  • Definition and enumeration of human rights,
  • Role of belief systems (religious and ideological) in the proposed new government, and
  • A science court of appeals.
  • The Space “Metanation”
    
• Workshop on Space Social Science Studies - SUN AM
  Director Michael Fulda of the Institue for the Social Science Study of Space.
  
• “Space Frontier Fiction” Writers Workshop SUN PM
  Director Ian Strock of Artemis Magazine.
  Constructing stories for scientifically plausible near term solar system fiction.
  
• Europa Submarine Exploration Workshop - SUN AM, 2 Sections
  Directors: Mark Kaehny, Bill Higgins, Guy Consolmagno S.J
  
  • Robotic Europa surface landers and submarine probes
  • Manned Europa surface and sub-marine outposts
    
• Workshops Proposed by the Artemis Society International
  (ASI seeks to put an early for-profit commercial outpost on the Moon.)
  
  • Early Lunar Mission Spacecraft for the Artemis Project FRI PM
  • Communications for the Artemis Moonbase Team SUN AM
  • Business of the Moon: solid business plans for serious would-be entrepreneurs SUN PM

PUBLIC OUTREACH & EDUCATION WORKSHOPS - NO FEE

• Putting together a “Solar System Economic Geography” Textbook Binder.
  SUN PM> Our students learn all about the results of the various planetary science missions. What they don’t learn about is the resources we have discovered or expect to discover on each world that might underpin future human outposts and settlements and a Solar System wide economy based on trade. It is the purpose of this workshop to determine the action items that will result in the production of just such a curiculum supplement in an updatable binder format.
  Director: Peter Kokh. Post ISDC '98 Note. This is now a joint effort by the Lunar Reclamation Society and the Wisconsin Space grant Consortium
  

These Proposed Brainstorming Workshops were not held

• Mars Airflight Demo Project - 2-3 hours
  Brainstorming a demonstration on Earth at high altitude (125,000 ft.) of the feasibility of Martian Aviation; Mission and design options; Funding options; Making the project real.
  
• Modular Lunar Architecture & Construction Systems 2-3 hours.
  Design Options using materials fabricated from local reources.
  Design requiremeents: minimal man-hours needed for on site assembly; early occupancy; shirtsleeve connections of all elements via pressurized “streets” and passageways.
  Materials to be considered: steel, aluminum, glass/glass composites, fiberglas reinforced lunar concrete; fiberglass reenforced cast basalt. (possible CAD software, copies of files)
  
• Go-anywhere Mars Hovercraft Design, 2-3 hrs.
  Brainstorming the possibilities of a hydrogen-lift-assisted Martian Skimmer “pick up truck” to traverse the trackless boulder strewn fields of Mars and open up the planet without the need to build expensive highway infrastructure. Looking for potential engineering showstoppers, and workarounds. A serious but fun “define and design” activity.
  
• Challenges of “Turtle Back” Spacesuit Design, 2-3 hours
  designing a space suit in which one enters and leaves through a clam shell back cover by packing into a conformal concave suit dock-lock; purpsoe is to minimize volatile loss on dock-lock cycling as well as to minimize moondust intrusion into the habitat or vehicle interior. This possibility has been suggested in artwork by Pat Rawlings. Russian back-hatch-access spacesuits are a possible design starting point. Looking for potential engineering showstoppers, and workarounds. A serious but fun “define and design” activity.
  
• Brainstorming a “Triple Helix” Space Settlement 3 hours.
  Classical designs are classified by the “Cassini Curve” option they embody: sphere, cylinder, and rotation of a barbel. The Helix is an overlooked “Cassini Curve” option overlooked by the ivory tower people, generated by the rotation of a barbel as it moves along a perpendicular axis It is a good thing Nature didn’t “overlook” this option! (DNA/Life). While Nature uses the Double Helix, we will brainstorm a Triple Helix design which would interweave three open-ended tube strands, with their time zones staggered by 8 hours, to allow an equally priveleged three shift system for full 24 hour use of shared facilities. Foreseen design challenges: solar access.
  
• The Riccioli Certificate Program for Amateur Lunar Observers 2 -3 hours.
  In this workshop, we will start with a draft proposal for a program similar to the amateur astronomy “Messier Certificate” which will encourage telescope observation of the Moon and familiarization with the features of its nearside face. Amaterur astronomers and clubs encouraged to participate. Post ISDC Note. This Project turned out to be already completed by another group, but the link to their page is no longer operating

For more information, contact:

Peter Kokh
1630 N. 32nd Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53208
KokhMMM@ aol.com

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