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title: "The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement (Springer Praxis Books)"
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# The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement (Springer Praxis Books)

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    Best introduction to lunar development
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2001*

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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    Game Changer
  

*by H***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2020*

This book does an excellent job of presenting the Moon as an essential Gateway to Space. It's full of facts and good reasoning. It is the best since "Mining the Sky".

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    The best I've read yet!
  

*by A***6 on Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2014*

As a summary of hundreds of scientific papers, this is in depth and not for non-scientists or engineers.  However, if you have a technical background, it is very well written and organized.  The ideas are more up-to-date and practical than older books that sound like something out of Buck Rogers.  I was surprised how much I learned.  That Ilmenite (20% of the regolith) is a semi-conductor and has a band-gap of 2.45V just blew my mind!  All of the ISRU ideas were presented with pros and cons.  I highly recommend this book.

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