Lunar Pioneers -

by Philip Robert Harris, Ph.D.

Introduction
The Origins of Lunar Pioneers
As I researched material for my first novel, I was invited to seminars at the California Space Institute of the University of California-San Diego. Then in 1984, I was appointed a Faculty Fellow at a NASA Summer Study there focused on "Strategic Planning for a Lunar Base in 2010." It was an intensive nine-week learning experience. lead by some of the best brains in the American space program, including. * Among, the speakers were four Apollo astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin, the second human to land on the Moon and Harrison Schmitt, one of the last humans on the lunar surface. My research centered on space management and space culture, topics on which he would further publish extensively. This learning experience provided your authors with a file cabinet of resource data which subsequently formed the basis for three professional books on space, as well my original novel, Launch Out. One of the lecturers in the Cal Space lunar studies was Gene Roddenberry . creator of the Star Trek television series and films. He offered to review the LO manuscript when it was finished, but unfortunately died a week after receiving it in 1988.

Lunar Pioneers is a sequel to Launch Out, and is also a science-based novel about lunar industrialization and settlement. The first book was about human migrating offworld in the 21st century, and that story is continued in this present text about space enterprises. The first plot centered around two visionaries, Robert Delahunt, CEO of Pacific Interplanetary Enterprises in La Jolla, California, and KazuoYamamoto, founder of Nippon Interplanetary Services in Kyoto, Japan. Their synergistic business relationship leads to the formation of the Global Space Trust (GST), an international consortium of private space enterprise, working in collaboration with the world's space agencies. Its objective was to engage in a macroproject called LUNAR WORLD. As a start-up enterprise, this venture constructs the Krafft Ehricke Lunar Industrial Park, named after a great rocket scientist who wrote detailed plans about Selenopolis, the first city on the Moon inhabited by earthpeople dubbed, Selenians (after the mythological Greed goddess of the Moon, Selene). The GST goal initially was achieved by sending robots to the lunar surface in 2009 to prepare for human missions in 2010. That year was chosen for the lunar launching of humans because it was the date NASA originally proposed for a permanent lunar return. Apart from budget limitations for NASA, delays in achieving this goal resulted from loss of the Shuttles Challenger and Columbia, along with the deaths of fourteen brave astronauts, as well as the prolonged building of the International Space Station. In the 21st century, the United States national space policy, Vision for Space Exploration, called for a permanent NASA lunar return by 2020, a plan that we have also incorporated in our current scenario with the founding that year of a second luna base by the world's space agencies.

Thus, Lunar Pioneers, set in A. D. 2050, tells us what happened to those people launched to the Moon some forty years before. Some of the original Global Space Trust's technauts have died, others have returned to Earth, and many of the characters are now senior citizens of LUNA WORLD, the new designation adopted by its inhabitants.

AUTHOR: Philip R. Harris, Ph.D., is a management/space psychologist and futurist. As president of Harris International in La Jolla, California, he has been engaged in human resource and leadership development for over 40 years. For the past 25 years, this behavioral science has focused his research and writing on space human factors, and the challenge of humans living and working beyond Earth.

Dr. Harris has written or edited 48 published books, and over 260 journal and magazine articles. His current title, Toward Human Emergence, concludes that our human potential can only be achieved beyond Earth. His classic, Managing Cultural Differences, is used worldwide as a textbook, and his Managing the Knowledge Culture, deals with humanity's work environment today. Among his five space books, the best known is Space Enterprise - Living and Working Offworld in the 21st Century. He is the founding editor of the journal, Space Governance, and his space articles received several "awards for excellence" from the Aviation/Space Writers Association. He has produced several A/V educational systems, and hosted a 37 week television series on NBC's Sunday Today Show.

Phil, as he prefers to be known, has taught and lectured at universities and colleges around the world. He has been on the faculties of The Pennsylvania State University and Temple University, currently serving as an adjunct professor at the California International University in San Diego. A graduate of Fordham University (M.S./Ph.D.) and St. John's University (B.B.A.), he was licensed as a psychologist by the University of the State of New York.

Among his awards and recognitions are Fulbright professor to India from the U. S. State Department; NASA Faculty Fellow at the California State Institute; and the Torch Award for outstanding contributions to human resource development from the American Society for Training and Development. He has served as a consultant to 250 global human systems, including the National Astronautics and Space Administration. The author is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, plus a Fellow of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. For further information, consult Who's Who in America, or the website: www.drphilipharris.com.