Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of SpaceSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007 M12 28 - 336 pages The Moon is not just a "local" destination, argues former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. As a destination, the Moon presents us with a goal that tests our resourcefulness and determination. How much are we willing to spend to re-establish ourselves as space-farers? Return to the Moon proposes that we begin planning, and now, for the establishment of human outposts on the Moon — not just as an exercise in technology and discovery, and not just as a way of fulfilling our destiny as explorers and pioneers. Schmitt, having himself traveled to and literally walked on the Moon, is no stranger to technology, discovery, and a sense of our destiny as explorers; but in this book he focuses on a return to the moon as a business proposition. |
Contents
2 | |
THE LEGACY | 11 |
CHAPTER 3 | 22 |
3 | 38 |
Notes and References | 47 |
CHAPTER 4 | 53 |
CHAPTER 5 | 63 |
CHAPTER 6 | 70 |
6 | 129 |
Notes and References | 143 |
CHAPTER 8 | 149 |
LESSONS FROM APOLLO | 169 |
RESTRUCTURING FOR DEEP SPACE | 197 |
THE BEST APPROACH | 239 |
SPACE RESOURCES | 275 |
ROLES IN SPACE | 299 |
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