The Lunar Base Handbook FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lunar Base Handbook provides an overview aboutthe Moon and its environment, the current status of lunar base design, tools we need to design a lunar base, checklists and flow charts that outline the design process, and technological requirements of a lunar base.
The main audience for this book is engineers, but it is also interesting for scientists, managers, lawyers, undergraduates, and high school students, and readable for the interested layman.
SYNOPSIS
The Lunar Base Handbook provides an overview about
the Moon and its environment
the current status of lunar base design
tools we need to design a lunar base; checklists and flow charts that outline the design process
technological requirements of a lunar base
The main audience for this book is engineers, but it is also interesting for scientists, managers, lawyers, undergraduates, and high school students, and readable for the interested layman.
Contains essays by Buzz Aldrin, Arthur C. Clarke, Harrison AH. Schmitt, John Young, and many others involved in space exploration.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Created primarily for engineers, this lengthy reference includes 24 chapters by Eckart (astronautics, Technical University of Munich) each of which is preceded by at least one introductory essay by contributors such as Buzz Aldrin, Arthur C. Clarke, Harrison H. Schmitt, and John Young. Eckart seems to have thought of everythingfrom funding sources and site selection to habitat design, power supply, crew health, communication and navigation systems, radiation shielding, and even selecting wheels for lunar surface vehicles. Truly multidisciplinary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
For all those who have looked at the Moon with awe and wonder, for all those who long to reach this celestial neighbor of ours, to all those who will one day live and work on the Moon, this richly rewarding and beautifully done book is essential.
— Ben Bova
This volume, which will surely become historic, is a blue-print for the 21st century -- when we will become a space-faring species.
— Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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