Return to the Moon. Exploration, Enterprise, and Energyin the Human Settlement of Space. Foreword by Neil Armstrong.
New York: Copernicus Books, 206. First Hardcover Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. 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. Item #29558
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