The Lunar Elevator: Bringing the Riches of the Moon Down to Earth

by Charles Radley, Jerome Pearson, Michael Lainé

This book in our subseries called New Space Ventures discusses the advantages of building a lunar elevator and how it would afford access to some of the resources the Moon has to offer. We could potentially reduce poverty and improve Earth's environment using such a technology. Human civilization could more easily expand to Earth orbit or the Moon, and perhaps beyond. The book sets out the road map of how this could be achieved. The lunar elevator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319664867
• ISBN13: 9783319664866
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Springer