Return to the Moon [recurso electrónico] : Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space / by Harrison H. Schmitt.

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: Organizatonal 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.

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.