Amazon.com description: Product Description: This second edition discusses scientific accomplishments and behavioural space science research concerning near-term exploration, settlement and industrialization of the space environment. The ten chapters, on the human and cultural dimensions for creating a spacefaring civilization, consider particular issues such as the deployment and performance of spacefarers management of large scale space enterprises and discuss the key industrial and technical challenges. This edition has been thoroughly updated and revised, and new chapters have been included on "Macrothinking in Global Space Planning" and "Strategies for Lunar Industrialization and Port Planning."