It was a quiet month on the publishing side; the calm before the storm. ;)

Moon exploration updates

Last month Moon Monday crossed 4,000 subscribers! :D

• Moon Monday #112: Planning Artemis science, exciting mission updates, and more

• Moon Monday #111: An Indo-Japanese rover, China’s 4th lunar leap, Artemis collaborations, and more

• Moon Monday #110: A spacecraft that sees lunar shadows, Saudi Arabia’s withdrawal from The Moon Treaty, mission updates, and more

• Moon Monday #109: Seven lunar landing attempts this year, and NASA’s budget for Luna

New archive pages

• Space poems I’ve written

Notable microposts

• Random:

  • In praise of Bear

  • I’ve started playing badminton again after 3 years. 🏸

  • I’ve renamed my non-space blog to Thought Brew.

• The Web:

  • It’s just so insanely satisfying to hyperlink anything anywhere on the Web. 🤓

  • When building a community, elitism is the quickest path to exclusion. →

  • We have all sorts of metrics to measure attention & retention but not goodwill.

  • I love emailing interesting people I’ve come across on the Web.

• More space:

  • I love introducing NASA and ISRO folks with each other.

  • It turns out that I have inadvertently consulted for several space organizations.

  • Our Moon in a Latte

  • Dear Indian readers, I’m finally able to accept donations via UPI.

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