Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon—to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role—just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production—Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.
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Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon—to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role—just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production—Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.
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Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
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Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
336Paperback(Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781441920256 |
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Publisher: | Springer New York |
Publication date: | 10/18/2010 |
Edition description: | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006 |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d) |
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