Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space (Repost)
Harrison Schmitt, "Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space"
2006 | pages: 350 | ISBN: 0387242856 | PDF | 3,7 mb
2006 | pages: 350 | ISBN: 0387242856 | PDF | 3,7 mb
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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