Schmitt, Harrison H. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780387310640  99780387310640 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/0-387-31064-9  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>SCIENCE (GENERAL).<br/>ASTRONOMY.<br/>ASTROPHYSICS.<br/>POPULAR SCIENCE.<br/>POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY.<br/>EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, SPACE SCIENCES.<br/>ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>520