Return to the Moon : exploration, enterprise, and energy in the human settlement of space /
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| Author / Creator: | Schmitt, Harrison H. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Copernicus Books, in association with Praxis Pub., c2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 335 p.) : ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8878736 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 335 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780387310640 0387310649 0387242856 9780387242859 6611141359 9786611141356 |