Research Catalog

Title

Return to the Moon : exploration, enterprise, and energy in the human settlement of space / Harrison Schmitt ; foreword by Neil Armstrong.

Author

Schmitt, Harrison H.

Publication

New York, NY : Copernicus Books, in association with Praxis Publishing, c2006.

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Description

xvi, 335 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Astronomy
• Astrophysics
• IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION
• LUNAR EXPLORATION
• LUNAR RESOURCES
• Lunar bases
• Lunar mining
• MISSION PLANNING
• Moon
• SPACE COLONIES
• SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION
• Science (General)
• Space flight to the moon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0387242856
• 9780387242859

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library