The Lunar Homestead Show was planned as a special exhibit area at ISDC '98 Milwaukee. It's purpose is to illustrate and demonstrate some the technologies by which future pioneers, in an outpost on its way to becoming a settlement, will make themselves at home on the moon, the first Lunans. The emphasis will be on what will be different about lunar homes yet how homelike resourceful Lunans might make them.

We encourage contributions of “poster papers” and “Story Board” displays and or models of your own various conceptions. There are no exhibitor fees or hanging fees for contributions to this exhibit area. Address inquiries about contributing to the Lunar Homestead Show to kokhmmm@aol.com

As conceived, the show will have these features:

• Concept models of lunar homes built from simulated made-on-Lunar materials - done
• Working mock-ups of visual access (letting in the view) - done
• Working mock-ups of solar access (letting in the Sun)
• Sample interior wall treatments (planned: duroc/steel stud wall with various finishes)
• Sample made-on-Luna furniture and furnishings (cast basalt, ceramic, concrete, glass, fiberglass, fiberglass-glass matrix composites, aluminum, iron and steel, etc.)
• Arts and crafts made wholly from materials economically recoverable from lunar regolith (e.g. paints of metal oxides suspended in sodium silicate - sample paintings and storyboard done)
• Concepts for alternative air-conserving (and vacuum preserving) air locks - storyboard done

Associated Events: Post ISDC Note: Neither of the events below took place for lack of participants

• A Lunar Fashion Show (cotton, recyclable paper, adornment with glass beads, metal, chain mail, organic natural dyes, etc.) at the Sunday night Banquet.
• A performance by "The Cradlebreakers", an ad hoc ensemble, who are to use only instruments that could be fashioned from common lunar materials (i.e. no wood, no plastics, no brass, etc.). If you are interested in joining this ensemble, please contact us per info below.

Associated Workshops:

• Regolith Impressionism: Waterglass - Metal Oxide Painting Techniques - $30, pre-registration only. Post ISDC Note: This workshop was not held for lack of registrants

The purpose of the Lunar Homestead Show is to bring to life the concept of "living off the land" and illustrate that it is feasible and realistic to expect pioneers to succeed in making themselves at home, expressing themselves in the media of their environment, just as pioneers on Earth have always succeeded in doing upon moving into new lands.

We can use help from anyone with engineering, artistic, craft, or project management talent. We can use financial help too! There is a lot to do to make the Lunar Homestead Show a success.

If successful, and if sponsors provide continuing support, the Lunar Reclamation Society would like to take the Lunar Homestead Show on the road, to become an ISDC regular or frequent feature.

How YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE to the Lunar Homestead Show.

• Individuals can contribute illustrated Storyboards, accompanied by an explanatory paper (in triplicate), about some aspect of space frontier homesteading and domestic life that they would like to share with attendees. Illustrations should be large and clear. Three dimensional models are not necessary, but are certainly encouraged. If not able to personally attend ISDC '98 and bring your display with you, you need send only ALL materials and captions to be mounted on the storyboard along with a mounting layout or map and a check or money order for $10 to "ISDC 98", attention LHS) postmarked no later than April 20, 1998, and we will purchase the poster board or foam core for you and do the mounting. You need include only one unstapled copy of the accompanying paper. All contributed physical materials become the property of the Lunar Reclamation Society, Inc.. Copyrights, however, remain with the individual contributor.
• You can send monetary contributions to help defray the cost of preparing the exhibits. You contribution will be publicly acknowledged in the ISDC program booklet and in the LHS exhibit guide.
• If you are local and handy, we can use your help in putting together models and exhibits.

Post ISDC Note: The Lunar Homestead Exhibit we were actually able to field was much smaller than the one we had dreamed about putting together. Our efforts to farm out various components generally did not work, and locally, we were unable to generate interest until the needed lead time had slipped by. Nonetheless the ISDC '98 Exhibit Room received high marks from attendees, and several "down payments" on the Lunar Homestead Exhibit were built and on display. See items: "Z-vue", Moon Bricks, Moon Manor and Lunar Painting. We hope to add more displays to the Lunar Homestead Exhibit, and take the show on the road to future conferences and other events, but this has not happened.

Peter Kokh
1630 N. 32nd Street
Milwaukee WI 53208-2040
(414) 342-0705 (6-8 am, 6-10 pm, Central)
email all LHS inquiries to KokhMMM@aol.com