An online preview of the 2006 book by astronaut Harrison Schmitt. The preview allows access to a significant portion of the text. 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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