The Human Factor in the Settlement of the Moon (eBook)

Dr. Margaret Boone Rappaport has been a cultural anthropologist involved in a wide array of social, cultural, health, and education research projects since 1975. She received the doctorate in 1977 from the Ohio State University, and went on to lecture at Georgetown and George Washington Universities, until she joined the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Preferring a contract research career because of its variety and opportunities for travel, she left government and founded her own company, Policy Research Methods, Incorporated, 1987-2006. Her interests switched to Space Studies around that time, and have continued in that track ever since while maintaining a full academic writing career.

Konrad Szocik received his PhD in Philosophy in 2013 from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów and visiting fellow at the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center at Yale University. His research areas include cognitive and evolutionary study of religion, evolution of cooperation, and the idea of the manned mission to Mars and Mars colonization. Dr. Konrad Szocik has taken his background in Philosophy to use it in the applied field of space studies. Not only is he Editor of a book on Mars, and a book on Human Enhancements, both published by Springer, he has also maintained an active publication record in respected journals, such as Space Policy, Futures, and Acta Astronautica. He also serves as editor of the 'Studia Humana' journal.