Return to the Moon Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space /
Schmitt, Harrison H.
Return to the Moon Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space / [recurso electrónico] : by Harrison H. Schmitt. - XVI, 335 p. 20 illus. online resource.
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.
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SCIENCE (GENERAL).
ASTRONOMY.
ASTROPHYSICS.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, SPACE SCIENCES.
ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY.
520
Return to the Moon Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space / [recurso electrónico] : by Harrison H. Schmitt. - XVI, 335 p. 20 illus. online resource.
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.
9780387310640 99780387310640
10.1007/0-387-31064-9 doi
SCIENCE (GENERAL).
ASTRONOMY.
ASTROPHYSICS.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, SPACE SCIENCES.
ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY.
520