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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780387242859
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-387-24285-9
- Verlag: Springer
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.11.2005
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2006. Corr. 2. Printing 2006 Auflage 2005
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1480 g
- Seiten: 336
- Format (B x H x T): 167 x 240 x 31 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt