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Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space

Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Harrison SchmittPublish date:2005-11-16Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Copernicus BooksISBN-13:9780387242859ISBN-10:387242856UPC:9780387242859Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Physics, Space ScienceBook Topic:Astrophysics, AstronomySize:9.30 x 6.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC4TFHZJZA

Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Copernicus BooksISBN-13:9780387242859ISBN-10:387242856UPC:9780387242859Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Physics, Space ScienceBook Topic:Astrophysics, AstronomySize:9.30 x 6.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC4TFHZJZA

Harrison Schmitt is, as of this date, the 12th and last human to have stepped on the Moon. As an astronaut, pilot, geologist, academic, businessman, and United States Senator, he has had a distinguished career in science and technology practice and policy. Schmitt was the first scientist to go into space specifically to explore the Moon as the Lunar Module Pilot and field geologist on the last...

Publisher: Copernicus Books

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2006. Corr. 2nd Edition

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