Return to the Moon
Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7444664M
- ISBN-139780387242859
- ISBN-100387242856
- OCLC Control Number61665569
- OCLC Control Numberreturntomoon00schm
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005932845
- Goodreads640766
- LibraryThing230083
Classifications
- LCCMLCM 2006/40188 (T)
Description
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.
First Sentence
ONE possible view of the future of humankind consists of a positive, expansive continnum - the "Star Trek" vision.
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