Guest: Dr. Arlin Crotts. Topics: Lunar exploration, commerce, & human development in addition to many related topics. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. In addition, please remember that your Amazon purchases can help support The Space Show/OGLF. See www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/amazon.htm. For those listening to archives using live365.com and rating the programs, please email me as to why you assign a specific rating to the show. This will help me bring better programming to the audience. We welcomed Dr. Arlin Crotts back to the show to discuss his new book, "The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation" plus lunar related science and development issues & concerns. For more information, visit Dr. Crotts website, http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~arlin/research.html. In the first segment of our 93 minute program, I asked Dr. Crotts to summarize lunar science and development progress since his last appearance on TSS, Oct. 27, 2009 through today. Dr. Crotts had much say in this summary, especially with lunar water, hydroxyls, minerals, LCROSS, volatiles, and more. Don't miss this summary. Listeners asked many questions about INSITU Resource Utilization on the Moon, polar ice, water ice, volatiles, fuel possibilities, and more. I asked if he had detected an increase in the public's awareness of the Moon and many of these issues plus I wanted his thoughts on the private sector commercial opportunities and plans opening up for the Moon. The balance of this segment featured calls and listeners emails asking about the lunar poles, volatiles, craters & the Resolve Mission. In the second segment, Dr. Crotts was asked about the Lunar Mission One Kickstarter project and their wanting to drill 100m into the Moon. Dr. Crotts did not comment on the project but did talk about why we needed more and deeper lunar drilling exploration. Our guest also talked about his book in detail in this segment, saying it was very detailed, well documented and supported, and that readers would learn things about the Moon not previously known or written about given his access to original lunar exploration and Apollo documents. Other topics in this segment addressed humans to Mars or the moons of Mars, the timing of human lunar settlement which he supported but not until we know much more about the Moon to do it safely and correctly. We talked about this approach in some detail. Space settlement was discussed and he said it would happen sooner or later but that we needed more lunar science first before we settled the Moon. Near the end of the segment, Dr. Crotts was asked about NASA's ARM project. Space mining came up and then just before the program ended, Eric inquired about Transit Lunar Phenomena (see http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~arlin/TLP). Tim was our last caller asking about the use of RTGs. Dr. Crotts talked about reactors on the Moon and mentioned the smaller Toshiba 4G reactor. Please post your comments/questions on TSS blog above. You can reach Dr. Crotts through his website or me.
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