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Visionaries of Human Space Exploration

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As a special treat to our readers, the final three chapters of this Handbook provide short biographies of the most notable Visionaries and Pioneers of lunar exploration and development, along with an overview of their most notable accomplishments and perspectives, both on lunar and human space exploration. Specifically, in this chapter, we are presenting the following 7 Visionaries of Human Space Exploration:

  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  • Hermann Oberth

  • Robert Goddard

  • Arthur C. Clarke

  • Carl Sagan

  • Krafft Ehricke

  • Gerard O’Neill

The selection of the 7 Visionaries presented here is certainly a subjective one. There are so many others who made crucial contributions over the past decades and even centuries.

For one of the Visionaries (Arthur C. Clarke), we can present an original essay that he provided exclusively for The Lunar Base Handbook by Peter Eckart (McGraw-Hill 1999/2006).

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  1. Aldrin Space Institute, Melbourne, FL, USA

    Shayan Shirshekar

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  1. Florida Institute of Technology, Aldrin Space Institute, Melbourne, FL, USA

    Peter Eckart

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    Andrew Aldrin

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    Peter Eckart

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Shirshekar, S. (2022). Visionaries of Human Space Exploration. In: Eckart, P., Aldrin, A. (eds) Handbook of Lunar Base Design and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05323-9_12-1

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