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SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS MARS VIA THE MOON - ERI...

MOMENTUM IS BUILDING for a return to the Moon. NASA's international partners on the
International Space Station are in favor of returning to the lunar surface  as are India and
China. The horizon goal may be Mars  but the political  funding and the technological and
medical infeasibility of such an objective means the next logical step is a return to the Moon.
While much has been learned about the Moon over the years  we don't understand its resource
wealth potential and the technologies to exploit those resources have yet to be developed  but
there are a number of companies that are developing these capabilities. And  with the discovery
of water in the lunar polar regions  plans are in the works to exploit these resources for fuel
for transportation operations in cis-lunar space and in low Earth orbit (LEO). The time has
come for commercial enterprise to lead the way back to the lunar surface. Embarking on such a
venture requires little in the way of new technologies. We don't need to develop super-fast
propulsion systems like those required to get us to Mars safely  nor do we need hundreds of
billions of dollars that the experts reckon it will cost to transport humans to the Red Planet.
What we do need is a place to test the technologies and deep space experience that will enable
us to build a pathway that will lead us to Mars. That place is the Moon and this book explains
why.

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