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Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans�to the Moon�to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role�just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production�Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.Typham this is the title: Return to the Moon Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space