Joseph Silk
Princeton University Press, 2022 304 pages, ISBN 9780691215235 US$29.95, hardcover
paints an exciting vision of planned human activity on and around the Moon in coming years and decades: crewed bases at craters in the south polar region and larger settlements in lava tubes; an orbiting spaceport, together with communications and data-relay satellites; robot-assisted mining of lunar resources; even tourist resorts. Importantly for author Joseph Silk readers), this expansive view includes giant observatories.
