Space Mining and Manufacturing Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques /

• Main Author: Sivolella, Davide (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: Technology.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Space sciences.; Law of the sea.; International law.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Popular Science in Technology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.; Science and Technology Studies.
• Physical Description: XI, 207 p. 102 illus., 38 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030308810
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30881-0

This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social unrest, economic instability and unemployment. It also touches on the legal problems that will be encountered with the implementation of the new technologies and new laws that will need to be enacted and new organizations that will need to be formed to deal with these changes. This proposition for a space economy is not science fiction, but well within the remit of current or under development technologies. Numerous technologies are described and put together to form a coherent and feasible road map that, if implemented, could lead humankind towards a brighter future. .