Return to the Moon : Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space /
By: Schmitt, Harrison H [author.].
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BookPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.Description: XVI, 336 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387310640.Subject(s): Popular works | Astronomy | Astrophysics | Cosmology | Space sciences | Popular Science | Popular Science in Astronomy | Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences | Astronomy, Astrophysics and CosmologyDDC classification: 520 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | Available | EBK1651 |
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.
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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