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

Schmitt, Harrison

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.

Details

Published by: Copernicus

Publication Date: 2010-10-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781441920256

DOI: 10.1007/0-387-31064-9

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 336