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