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. 

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.