The Moon is not just a local destination, argues former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt.
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.
Copernicus Books Return to the moon: exploration, enterprise, and energy in the human settlement of space, hardcover/harrison schmitt
