The Complete Archive · 1986–2019
Moon Miners’ Manifesto
For thirty-three years, ten issues a year, one newsletter mapped out how pioneers would actually live on the Moon — what they would build with, breathe, trade, wear, and dream. This is the complete archive of Peter Kokh’s Moon Miners’ Manifesto, preserved and free to read.
About the newsletter
“M” is for Mole
Moon Miners’ Manifesto began with issue #1 in December 1986 as the newsletter of the Milwaukee Lunar Reclamation Society, an NSS chapter. From issue #90 in November 1995 it also served as the newsletter of the Artemis Society and then of The Moon Society, carrying the four-page Moon Society Journal at its center, with circulation across participating National Space Society chapters and readers worldwide.
The name explains itself in the very first article: “M” is for “Mole” — the December 1986 essay about an underground Wisconsin home “absolutely awash in sunlight”, and what it promised for living well beneath the lunar regolith.
Its editor for all 303 issues was Peter Kokh — teacher, wordsmith, and relentless imaginer of the lunar frontier. Most issues deal with the opening of the Moon: how pioneers can make the best use of local resources and learn to make themselves at home. Much of what holds for the Moon holds for Mars and for space in general, and MMM ranged there too — asteroids, Europa, Titan, even the cloud tops of Venus. Peter closed the run with issue #303 in July 2019, carried on with a successor publication, Outbound, through the end of that year, and is now retired. The archive you are reading is his life’s work — three decades of it, free to all.
Issues #1–144 circulated on paper and were later re-edited by Peter into the MMM Classics anthologies; the PDF era begins with issue #145 (May 2001).
The collection
Explore the archive
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Full Issues #145–303
Every issue from May 2001 through the final issue in July 2019, exactly as published — 159 PDFs.
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MMM Classics
The first 250 issues (1986–2011), re-edited into 25 annual anthology volumes — the complete early run of the newsletter.
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Classic Themes
The best of MMM regrouped by topic: Mars, lavatubes, tourism, the lunar economy, legal issues, transportation, and more.
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MMM-India Quarterly
The international edition launched in the excitement following Chandrayaan-1, fall 2008 through 2013.
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Outbound
Peter Kokh’s post-MMM publication, 2017–2019: Mars, the asteroids, Pluto, and the wider solar system in 25 free-form issues.
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The MMM Glossary
“Moon-speak” — 300+ new words and old words with new meanings, coined across three decades of imagining the lunar frontier.
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Image Gallery
140 illustrations from the pages of MMM and the Artemis Project — habitats, rovers, lavatube settlements, mass drivers.