TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmitt,Harrison H.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space 
SN  - 9780387310640
U1  - 520 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - SCIENCE (GENERAL)
KW  - ASTRONOMY
KW  - ASTROPHYSICS
KW  - POPULAR SCIENCE
KW  - POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY
KW  - EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, SPACE SCIENCES
KW  - ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31064-9
ER  -