Space Enterprise Living and Working Offworld in the 21st Century

In Space Enterprise - Living and Working Offworld, Dr Philip Harris provides the vision and rationale as to why humanity is leaving its cradle, Earth, to use space resources, as well as pursuing lunar industrialization and establishing offworld settlements. As a management/space psychologist, Dr. Ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Phillip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Praxis 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Space Exploration
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication In Memory of the Shuttle Crews, Challenge and Columbia
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Exhibits
  • Foreward
  • Prologue
  • Toward Global Space Vision, Ethos, and Enterprise
  • Human Space Exploration and Settlement
  • Space Habitability and the Environment
  • Cultural Implications of Space Enterprise
  • High Performing Spacefarers
  • Orbital Pesonnel Deployment and Tourism
  • Macrothinking in Strategic Space Planning
  • Macromangement of Space Enterprise
  • Challenges in Offworld Private Enterprise
  • Lunar Enterprise and Development
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • About the Case Study Contributors
  • Governance Issues in Space Societies
  • Space-based Energy - Lunar Solar Power
  • Space Tourism Enterprise
  • Learning from Space Entrepreneurs
  • Health Services Aloft - Space Nurses
  • Resources
  • References and Websites
  • Index
  • About the Author