Lunar Settlements

Author : Haym Benaroya
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420083333

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Lunar Settlements by Haym Benaroya Pdf

Bringing together some of the most recognized and influential researchers and scientists in various space-related disciplines, Lunar Settlements addresses the many issues that surround the permanent human return to the Moon. Numerous international contributors offer their insights into how certain technological, physiological, and psychological challenges must be met to make permanent lunar settlements possible. The book first looks to the past, covering the Apollo and Saturn legacies. In addition, former astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison H. Schmitt discusses how to maintain deep space exploration and settlement. The book then discusses economic aspects, such as funding for lunar commerce, managing human resources, and commercial transportation logistics. After examining how cultural elements will fit into habitat design, the text explores the physiological, psychological, and ethical impact of living on a lunar settlement. It also describes the planning/technical requirements of lunar habitation, the design of both manned and modular lunar bases, and the protection of lunar habitats against meteoroids. Focusing on lunar soil mechanics, the book concludes with discussions on lunar concrete, terraforming, and using greenhouses for agricultural purposes. Drawing from the lunar experiences of the six Apollo landing missions to the many American and Soviet robotic missions to current space activities and research, this volume summarizes the problems, prospects, and practicality of enduring lunar settlements. It reflects the key disciplines, including engineering, physics, architecture, psychology, biology, and anthropology, that will play significant roles in establishing these settlements.

Author : Margaret Boone Rappaport,Konrad Szocik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030813888

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The Human Factor in the Settlement of the Moon by Margaret Boone Rappaport,Konrad Szocik Pdf

Approaching the settlement of our Moon from a practical perspective, this book is well suited for space program planners. It addresses a variety of human factor topics involved in colonizing Earth's Moon, including: history, philosophy, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, politics & policy, sociology, and anthropology. Each chapter identifies the complex, interdisciplinary issues of the human factor that arise in the early phases of settlement on the Moon. Besides practical issues, there is some emphasis placed on preserving, protecting, and experiencing the lunar environment across a broad range of occupations, from scientists to soldiers and engineers to construction workers. The book identifies utilitarian and visionary factors that shape human lives on the Moon. It offers recommendations for program planners in the government and commercial sectors and serves as a helpful resource for academic researchers. Together, the coauthors ask and attempt to answer: “How will lunar society be different?”

Author : Haym Benaroya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319682440

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Building Habitats on the Moon by Haym Benaroya Pdf

Designing a habitat for the lunar surface? You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids, radiation, and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters, in a dangerous environment, far away from home. All these must be considered when the habitat is sized, materials specified, and structure designed. This book provides an overview of various concepts for lunar habitats and structural designs and characterizes the lunar environment - the technical and the nontechnical. The designs take into consideration psychological comfort, structural strength against seismic and thermal activity, as well as internal pressurization and 1/6 g. Also discussed are micrometeoroid modeling, risk and redundancy as well as probability and reliability, with an introduction to analytical tools that can be useful in modeling uncertainties.

Author : Harrison Schmitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387310640

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Return to the Moon by Harrison Schmitt Pdf

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.

Author : David Schrunk,Burton Sharpe,Bonnie L. Cooper,Madhu Thangavelu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387739823

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The Moon by David Schrunk,Burton Sharpe,Bonnie L. Cooper,Madhu Thangavelu Pdf

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.

Author : John Billingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Extraterrestrial bases
ISBN : NASA:31769000651334

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Space Resources and Space Settlements by John Billingham Pdf

Author : Grant Heiken,David Vaniman,Bevan M. French
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521334446

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Lunar Sourcebook by Grant Heiken,David Vaniman,Bevan M. French Pdf

The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.

Author : Wendell W. Mendell,Lunar and Planetary Institute,United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011738534

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Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century by Wendell W. Mendell,Lunar and Planetary Institute,United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

Author : Barry Shuken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1983261599

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Moon Life by Barry Shuken Pdf

A comet hits Earth. Billions die. Traumatized Earth builds a Moon colony. Problem solved, you think? But trouble follows trouble. The book tells the story of a critical week in that colony's history, told by two residents. Read it and weep for them.

Author : Brian Harvey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387739762

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Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration by Brian Harvey Pdf

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth’s orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they were tested. He concludes that political mismanagement rather than technology prevented the Soviet Union from landing cosmonauts on the moon. The book is well timed for the return to the moon by the United States and the first missions there by China and India.

Author : Viorel Badescu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642279690

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Moon by Viorel Badescu Pdf

The Earth has limited material and energy resources. Further development of the humanity will require going beyond our planet for mining and use of extraterrestrial mineral resources and search of power sources. The exploitation of the natural resources of the Moon is a first natural step on this direction. Lunar materials may contribute to the betterment of conditions of people on Earth but they also may be used to establish permanent settlements on the Moon. This will allow developing new technologies, systems and flight operation techniques to continue space exploration. In fact, a new branch of human civilization could be established permanently on Moon in the next century. But, meantime, an inventory and proper social assessment of Moon’s prospective energy and material resources is required. This book investigates the possibilities and limitations of various systems supplying manned bases on Moon with energy and other vital resources. The book collects together recent proposals and innovative options and solutions. It is a useful source of condensed information for specialists involved in current and impending Moon-related activities and a good starting point for young researchers.

Author : William A. Ambrose,James F. Reilly II,Douglas C. Peters
Publisher : AAPG
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780891813828

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Energy Resources for Human Settlement in the Solar System and Earth's Future in Space by William A. Ambrose,James F. Reilly II,Douglas C. Peters Pdf

The book's purpose is to provide the quantitative foundation for beginning to think about developing energy and minerals outside of Earth's atmosphere that are necessary to support scientific missions, space and extra-terrestrial scientific stations and permanent colonies, and ultimately expand Earth's economy beyond the near-earth environment to include space resources. We cannot envision a situation where all resources required for future space activities are exported from Earth, therefore, this book clearly illustrates that an effective economy is possible beyond Earth's surface when we consider the resources available in near-Earth space. Our first audience is members of AAPG, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and other professionals engaged in energy and resource development. As energy professionals, we are concerned on a daily basis with providing the necessary energy and minerals required for our growing world population and the increasing standard of living that comes with ample energy availability. And more than anything else, AAPG members are explorers. We are the professionals who have pushed back the boundaries of our resource base, from capturing petroleum resources from surface seeps, to drilling onshore wells to extract oil and gas, and to venturing offshore into increasingly difficult and hostile environments to supply the cheap and abundant energy made available by our advances in technology. There are more similarities than differences between deepwater exploration and development, and space exploration. Beyond our own members, however, our audience is every rational human being who understands human health and well-being, quality of life, education and freedom are dependent on the energy and minerals that support our advanced civilization. Space is the next frontier, and as the world civilization expands beyond Earth's surface we hope this publication serves to illustrate there are abundant opportunities to support and maintain - and in fact, allow to prosper - civilization's expansion into space -- Publisher's website.

Author : Virgiliu Pop
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402091353

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Who Owns the Moon? by Virgiliu Pop Pdf

This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the - lestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. In lay terms, it aims to ?nd an answer to the question “Who owns the Moon?” The ?rst chapter critically analyses and dismantles with legal arguments the issue of sale of extraterrestrial real estate, after having perused some of the trivial claims of celestial bodies ownership. The only consequence these claims have on the plane of space law is to highlight the need for a better regulation of extraterrestrial landed property rights. Next, thebook addresses theapparent silenceofthelawinthe?eldofextraterr- trial landed property, scrutinizing whether the factual situation on the extraterrestrial realms calls for legal regulations. The sources of law are examined in their dual dimension – that is, the facts that have caused and shaped the law of extraterrestrial real estate, and the norms which express this law. It is found that the norms and rules regarding property rights in the celestial realms are rather limited, failing to de?ne basic concepts such as celestial body.

Author : Erik Seedhouse
Publisher : Praxis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0387097465

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Lunar Outpost by Erik Seedhouse Pdf

Lunar Outpost provides a detailed account of the various technologies, mission architectures, medical requirements and training needed to return humans to the Moon within the next decade. It focuses on the means by which a lunar outpost will be constructed and also addresses major topics such as the cost of the enterprise and the roles played by private companies and individual countries. The return of humans to the surface of the Moon will be critical to the exploration of the solar system. The various missions are not only in pursuit of scientific knowledge, but also looking to extend human civilization, economic expansion, and public engagement beyond Earth. As well as NASA, China’s Project 921, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency, Russia, and the European Space Agency are all planning manned missions to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars. The Ares-I and Ares-V are the biggest rockets since the Saturn V and there is much state-of-the-art technology incorporated into the design of Orion, the spacecraft that will carry a crew of four astronauts to the Moon. Lunar Outpost also describes the human factors, communications, exploration activities, and life support constraints of the missions.

Author : Arlin Crotts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521762243

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The New Moon by Arlin Crotts Pdf

This book presents the complete story of the human lunar experience, including significant events in lunar science.