Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space

Harrison Schmitt

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UPC:
9780387242859
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2006-10-17
Author:
Harrison Schmitt
Language:
english
Edition:
1st ed. 2006. Corr. 2nd printing 2006
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Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humansto the Moonto 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 rolejust as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural productionSchmitt 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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