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The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement - 2nd Edition (Springer Praxis Space Exploration Books) | Lunar Colonization Guide for Scientists & Space Enthusiasts | Perfect for Research, Academic Studies & Space Program Planning
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The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement - 2nd Edition (Springer Praxis Space Exploration Books) | Lunar Colonization Guide for Scientists & Space Enthusiasts | Perfect for Research, Academic Studies & Space Program Planning
The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement - 2nd Edition (Springer Praxis Space Exploration Books) | Lunar Colonization Guide for Scientists & Space Enthusiasts | Perfect for Research, Academic Studies & Space Program Planning
The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement - 2nd Edition (Springer Praxis Space Exploration Books) | Lunar Colonization Guide for Scientists & Space Enthusiasts | Perfect for Research, Academic Studies & Space Program Planning
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This extraordinary book details how the Moon could be used as a springboard for Solar System exploration. It presents a realistic plan for placing and servicing telescopes on the Moon, and highlights the use of the Moon as a base for an early warning system from which to combat threats of near-Earth objects. A realistic vision of human development and settlement of the Moon over the next one hundred years is presented, and the author explains how global living standards for the Earth can be enhanced through the use of lunar-based generated solar power. From that beginning, the people of the Earth would evolve into a spacefaring civilisation.
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This book is the best up-to-date introduction to lunar development, focusing on the primary technical infrastructure necessary to expand from an initial base via In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) to global development of what the authors term "Planet Moon". The book makes a clear case first for why we should do this, and then in quite detailed outline, how. While some technical components, such as remote robotic tele-operation, or lunar materials mining and processing, still require research and development work, nothing in this project is far from mundane things we already know how to do. The book isn't entirely self-consistent and the logical separation of topics sometimes seems a bit odd, but the range of material covered is satisfyingly broad: lunar topography and composition; railways, telecommunications and materials transport; requirements on construction and chemical processing equipment; human-suitable habitats, life support, agriculture, and "cislunar" transport and logistics, and more. Beyond the technical discussion of the physical, chemical, and engineering issues are several sections of the book dealing with lunar government, including a proposal for creation of a "Lunar Economic Development Authority" (LEDA) following a port authority model, which looks extremely promising. At least as valuable as the 10 main chapters are the 20 appendixes, to which over half the book's pages are devoted. These appendixes, based heavily on work published elsewhere, bring a lot of information together in one place available for ready inter-comparison. Perhaps the most interesting is also the longest, Appendix E, which thoroughly covers the proposed processes for lunar oxygen extraction and related chemical processing. This book is an essential guide for anybody hoping to work on lunar development and participate in, as the authors phrase it, the "Planet Moon Project".

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