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BookmarkThe Moon is not just a "local" destination, argues former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt.
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As a destination, the Moon presents us with a goal that tests our resourcefulness and determination.
How much are we willing to spend to re-establish ourselves as space-farers? Return to the Moon proposes that we begin planning, and now, for the establishment of human outposts on the Moon — not just as an exercise in technology and discovery, and not just as a way of fulfilling our destiny as explorers and pioneers.
Schmitt, having himself traveled to and literally walked on the Moon, is no stranger to technology, discovery, and a sense of our destiny as explorers; but in this book he focuses on a return to the moon as a business proposition..
For more information about the title Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
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