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Award-winning author and aerospace engineer Dr. Benaroya details how today's technology enables us to construct practical habitats now on the Moon and elsewhere. Including a historical roundup of structural concepts for building on the Moon, the author shows that it is within society's technological and economical reach to begin to create the infrastructure needed for this project, and explains what steps are involved. This book offers a much needed broad perspective on what we can do to evolve into a spacefaring nation.

Lunar structures can, using current knowledge and technologies, be engineered to protect explorers and settlers in the severe environment of Earth's natural satellite. This is the first step in learning how to live in space and prepare for the exploration and settlement of Mars and the rest of the Solar System. Although the core of the book is structural engineering for the Moon, the ancillary but critical topics of human survival on the Moon, the economic foundations of a lunar settlement, and how the lunar settlement fits into humanity's expansion to Mars and the larger Earth-Moon-Mars system are all part of this story. Structural analysis and design is coupled with in-situ resource utilization and 3D printing possibilities, creating a new paradigm for exploration and settlement.

• Paperback: 400 pages
  
• Springer; February 10, 2018
  
• ISBN-10: 3319682423
  
• ISBN-13: 978-3319682426