Return to the Moon : Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space (2005. VIII, 200 p. w. 20 figs.)

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.