Isbn: 9780387242859 - return to the moon: exploration, enterprise, and energy in the human settlement of space (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: Used. pp. 352 20 Illus.

Zustand: Used. pp. 352.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black boards with blue cloth spine, with silver lettering. Black pictorial DJ in good condition (not quite very good because of a little crinkle at the top edge of the DJ). The book itself is in great shape. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 2006. 335 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page, 'To Linda! and [??] future, Harrison H. Schmitt. Apollo 17.' Schmitt was the 12th man to walk on the moon (there were only 13) as a member of the Apollo 17 crew, in Dec 1972. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Copernicus Books, New York, 2006. 335 pgs. Signed by Harrison Schmitt on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moonto 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 rolejust as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural productionSchmitt 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. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…