Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Importance of the Moon
- Chapter 2 First Steps
- Chapter 3 Moon/Mars
- Chapter 4 An International Flotilla
- Chapter 5 The Moon Rises from the Ashes
- Chapter 6 Moons Past
- Chapter 7 The Pull of the Far Side
- Chapter 8 Water in a Land of False Seas
- Chapter 9 Inconstant Moon
- Chapter 10 Moonlighting
- Chapter 11 Lunar Living Room
- Chapter 12 Lunar Power
- Chapter 13 Stepping Stone
- Chapter 14 Return to Earth
- Glossary
- Appendix A Von Braun et al. Space and Lunar Exploration Issues
- Appendix B Topics in Transient Phenomena on the Moon
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - The Importance of the Moon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Importance of the Moon
- Chapter 2 First Steps
- Chapter 3 Moon/Mars
- Chapter 4 An International Flotilla
- Chapter 5 The Moon Rises from the Ashes
- Chapter 6 Moons Past
- Chapter 7 The Pull of the Far Side
- Chapter 8 Water in a Land of False Seas
- Chapter 9 Inconstant Moon
- Chapter 10 Moonlighting
- Chapter 11 Lunar Living Room
- Chapter 12 Lunar Power
- Chapter 13 Stepping Stone
- Chapter 14 Return to Earth
- Glossary
- Appendix A Von Braun et al. Space and Lunar Exploration Issues
- Appendix B Topics in Transient Phenomena on the Moon
- Index
- References
Summary
If God meant us to explore space, He would have given us a Moon.
– Krafft A. Ehricke (1917–1984), aerospace scientist from pre–World War II Germany to 1980s United StatesKrafft Ehricke not only helped pioneer some of the earliest modern, liquid-propellant rockets, but also lived to develop workhorse boosters for the space age and concepts for lunar mining and planetary exploration now in the works. He envisioned the Moon as a stepping-stone, a role it played in several ways throughout humanity’s development starting long ago. He had a clever way of stating the profoundly obvious.
Ehricke’s life-span saw astounding human achievements: harnessing amazing new energy sources, traveling hundreds of times faster than ever before, probing scales millions of times larger and thousands of times smaller than imagined before, and transforming the Moon and planets from dreamlands to mapped worlds. We once ascribed romantic notions to the Moon; now we see how alien worlds differ from Earth and distant worlds of our imagination.
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- The New MoonWater, Exploration, and Future Habitation, pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014