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Author Schmitt, Harrison H

Title Return to the Moon : exploration, enterprise, and energy in the human settlement of space / Harrison Schmitt ; foreword by Neil Armstrong
Published New York, NY : Copernicus Books, in association with Praxis Pub., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Apollo : the legacy -- Energy : the global future -- Booster : Moon rocket economics -- Fusion : Helium-3 power economics -- Resources : lunar Helium-3 economics -- Settlement : Helium-3 production economics -- Approaches : organizational options for a return -- Management : lessons from Apollo -- NASA : restructuring for deep space -- Investors : the best approach -- Law : space resources -- Humans : roles in space -- Implications
Summary 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
Analysis ruimtewetenschap
space science
ruimtevlucht
space flight
maan
moon
astronomie
astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lunar bases.
Lunar mining.
Space flight to the moon.
lunar bases.
Lunar mining.
Space flight to the moon.
MISSION PLANNING.
LUNAR RESOURCES.
IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION.
SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION.
LUNAR EXPLORATION.
Space colonies.
Lunar bases.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Lunar bases
Lunar mining
Space flight to the moon
MISSION PLANNING.
LUNAR RESOURCES.
IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION.
SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION.
LUNAR EXPLORATION.
SPACE COLONIES.
SUBJECT Moon. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087107
Subject Moon.
Moon
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005932845 2005933402
ISBN 9780387310640
0387310649
0387242856
9780387242859