Digitized Books    Lunar Bases

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Contents

• Front matter (458 K)
• Prologue (127 K)
• Part 1: The Symposium: Keynote Speeches (929 K)
  • Remarks on the Lunar Base
    James M. Beggs
  • The Challenges and Opportunities of a New Era in Space: How Will We Respond?
    G. A. Keyworth II
  • In Space: One World United
    Walter J. Hickel
  • An Opportunity for Openness
    Arthur Kantrowitz
  • Thoughts on a Lunar Base
    Edward Teller
• Part 2: Lunar Base Concepts (3 MB)
  • Lunar Bases: A Post-Apollo Evaluation
    Paul D. Lowman Jr.
  • Evolution of Concepts for Lunar Bases
    Stewart W. Johnson and Ray S. Leonard
  • Strategies for a Permanent Lunar Base
    Michael B. Duke, Wendell W. Mendell, and Barney B. Roberts
  • Preliminary Design of a Permanently Manned Lunar Surface Research Base
    Stephen J. Hoffman and John C. Niehoff
  • Merits of a Lunar Polar Base Location
    James D. Burke
  • Nuclear Energy — Key to Lunar Development
    David Buden and Joseph A. Angelo Jr.
  • Nuclear Powerplants for Lunar Bases
    J. R. French
• Part 3: Transportation Issues (3 MB)
  • Mission and Operations Modes for Lunar Basing
    Gordon R. Woodcock
  • Impact of Lunar and Planetary Missions on the Space Station
    G. R. Babb, H. P. Davis, P. G. Phillips, and W. R. Stump
  • A Moon Base/Mars Base Transportation Depot
    Paul W. Keaton
  • Achromatic Trajectories and the Industrial-Scale Transport of Lunar Resources
    T. A. Heppenheimer
  • A Lunar-Based Propulsion System
    Sanders D. Rosenberg
  • Launching Rockets and Small Satellites from the Lunar Surface
    K. A. Anderson, W. M. Dougherty, and D. H. Pankow
• Part 4: Lunar Science (3 MB)
  • The Need for a Lunar Base: Answering Basic Questions About Planetary Science
    G. Jeffrey Taylor
  • Geochemical and Petrological Sampling and Studies at the First Moon Base
    Larry A. Haskin, Randy L. Korotev, David J. Lindstrom, and Marilyn M. Lindstrom
  • A Closer Look at Lunar Volcanism from a Base on the Moon
    D. T. Vaniman, G. Heiken, and G. J. Taylor
  • Advanced Geologic Exploration Supported by a Lunar Base: A Traverse Across the Imbrium-Procellarum Region of the Moon
    Mark J. Cintala, Paul D. Spudis, and B. Ray Hawke
  • Search for Volatiles and Geologic Activity from a Lunar Base
    Larry Jay Friesen
  • Unmanned Spaceflights Needed as Scientific Preparation for a Manned Lunar Base
    Don E. Wilhelms
  • The Next Generation Geophysical Investigation of the Moon
    L. L. Hood, C. P. Sonett, and C. T. Russell
  • Geophysics and Lunar Resources
    D. Strangway
  • Surface Electromagnetic Exploration Geophysics Applied to the Moon
    Mark E. Ander
• Part 5: Science on the Moon (4 MB)
  • Astronomical Interferometry on the Moon
    Bernard F. Burke
  • A Moon-Earth Radio Interferometer
    Jack O. Burns
  • A Very Low Frequency Radio Astronomy Observatory on the Moon
    James N. Douglas and Harlan J. Smith
  • Lunar Based Gamma Ray Astronomy
    Robert C. Haymes
  • Irradiation of the Moon by Galactic Cosmic Rays and Other Particles
    James H. Adams Jr. and Maurice M. Shapiro
  • Celestial Sources of High-Energy Neutrinos as Viewed from a Lunar Observatory
    Maurice M. Shapiro and Rein Silberberg
  • A Lunar Neutrino Detector
    M. Cherry and K. Lande
  • Neutrino Measurements on the Moon
    Albert G. Petschek
  • Mass Extinctions and Cosmic Collisions: A Lunar Test
    Friedrich Hörz
• Part 6: Lunar Construction (2.5 MB)
  • Lunar Base Design
    Peter Land
  • A Surface-Assembled Superstructure Envelope System to Support Regolith Mass-Shielding for an Initial-Operational-Capability Lunar Base
    Jan Kaplicky and David Nixon
  • Concrete for Lunar Base Construction
    T. D. Lin
  • Concrete and Other Cement-Based Composites for Lunar Base Construction
    J. Francis Young
  • Magma, Ceramic, and Fused Adobe Structures Generated In Situ
    E. Nader Khalili
  • Lava Tubes: Potential Shelters for Habitats
    Friedrich Hörz
  • Design of Lunar-Based Facilities: The Challenge of a Lunar Observatory
    Stewart W. Johnson and Ray S. Leonard
  • Environmental Considerations and Waste Planning on the Lunar Surface
    Randall Briggs and Albert Sacco Jr.
• Part 7: Lunar Materials and Processes (3 MB)
  • Toward a Spartan Scenario for Use of Lunar Materials
    Larry A. Haskin
  • Mining for Lunar Base Support
    E. R. Podnieks and W. W. Roepke
  • Electrostatic Concentration of Lunar Soil Minerals
    William N. Agosto
  • In-Situ Rock Melting Applied to Lunar Base Construction and for Exploration Drilling and Coring on the Moon
    John C. Rowley and Joseph W. Neudecker
  • Microwave Processing of Lunar Materials: Potential Applications
    Thomas T. Meek, David T. Vaniman, Franklin H. Cocks, and Robin A. Wright
  • Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Structural Components
    James D. Blacic
  • Guide to Using Lunar Soil and Simulants for Experimentation
    J. H. Allton, C. Galindo Jr., and L. A. Watts
  • Fractional Distillation in a Lunar Envoronment
    Donald R. Pettit
  • Lunar Machining
    William Lewis
• Part 8: Oxygen: Predude to Lunar Industrialization (3 MB)
  • A Parametric Analysis of Lunar Oxygen Production
    Michael C. Simon
  • Lunar Oxygen Production from Ilmenite
    Michael A. Gibson and Christian W. Knudsen
  • Oxygen Extraction from Lunar Materials: An Experimental Test of an Ilmenite Reduction Process
    Richard J. Williams
  • A Carbothermal Scheme for Lunar Oxygen Production
    Andrew Hall Cutler and Peter Krag
  • Lunar Regolith Fines: A Source of Hydrogen
    James L. Carter
  • Hydrogen Recovery from Extraterrestrial Materials Using Microwave Energy
    D. S. Tucker, D. T. Vaniman, J. L. Anderson, F. W. Clinard Jr., R. C. Feber Jr., H. M. Frost, T. T. Meek, and T. C. Wallace
  • Microbial Extraction of Hydrogen from Lunar Dust
    David C. White and Peter Hirsch
  • Hydrogen and Water Desorption on the Moon: Approximate On-Line Simulations
    G. E. Blanford, P. Børgesen, M. Maurette, W. Möller, and B. Monart
  • An Analysis of Alternate Hydrogen Sources for Lunar Manufacture
    Herbert N. Friedlander
• Part 9: Life and Support and Health Maintenance (3 MB)
  • The Evolution of CELSS for Lunar Bases
    R. D. MacElroy, Harold P. Klein, and M. M. Averner
  • Wheat Farming in a Lunar Base
    Frank B. Salisbury and Bruce G. Bugbee
  • Metabolic Support for a Lunar Base
    R. L. Sauer
  • Implementing Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology in a Lunar Base Environmental Control/Life Support System
    Melaine Meyer Sedej
  • Radiation Transport of Cosmic Ray Nuclei in Lunar Material and Radiation Doses
    R. Silberberg, C. H. Tsao, J. H. Adams Jr., and John R. Letow
  • Aerosol Deposition Along the Respiratory Tract at Zero Gravity: A Theoretical Study
    B. E. Lehnert, D. M. Smith, L. M. Holland, M. I. Tillery, and R. G. Thomas
  • Toward the Development of a Recombinant DNA Assay System for the Detection
    of Genetic Change in Astronauts’ Cells
    Susan V. Atchley, David J.-C. Chen, Gary F. Strniste, Ronald A. Walters, and Robert K. Moyzis
  • Flow Cytometry for Health Monitoring in Space
    James H. Jett, John C. Martin, George C. Saunders, and Carleton C. Stewart
• Part 10: Societal Issues (3 MB)
  • Dreams and Realities: The Future in Space
    John Logsdon
  • The Budgetary Feasibility of a Lunar Base
    Wallace O. Sellers and Paul W. Keaton
  • Lunar Stations: Prospects for International Cooperation
    Philip M. Smith
  • Soviet Lunar Exploration: Past and Future
    James E. Oberg
  • Legal Responses for Lunar Bases and Space Activities in the 21st Century
    Amanda Lee Moore
  • Extraterrestrial Law and Lunar Bases: General Legal Principles and a Particular
    Regime Proposal (INTERLUNE)
    Christopher C. Joyner and Harrison H. Schmitt
  • Lunar Base: Learning to Live in Space
    Ben Finney
  • Lessons from the Past: Toward a Long-Term Space Policy
    Andrew Lawler
  • Historical Perspectives on the Moon Base — Cook and Australia
    Eric M. Jones and Ben R. Finney
  • Space Poems: Close Encounters Between the Lyric Imagination and 25 Years of NASA Space Exploration
    Helen Knox
• Part 11: Mars (1 MB)
  • A Millennium Project — Mars 2000
    Harrison H. Schmitt
  • Mars: The Next Major Goal?
    Elbert A. King
  • Rationales for Early Human Missions to Phobos and Deimos
    Brian O’Leary
  • The Moons of Mars: A Source of Water for Lunar Bases and LEO
    Bruce M. Cordell
  • The Problem of Water on Mars
    Steven W. Squyres
• Part 12: A Vision of Lunar Settlement (1 MB)
  • Lunar Industrialization and Settlement — Birth of Polyglobal Civilization
    Krafft A. Ehricke
• Index
• Epilogue: Address Given at Tricentennial Celebration, 4 July 2076 by Leonard Vincennes, Official Historian of Luna City 
  Ben Bova

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