3.5
Case for Mars
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Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit.
Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with illustrations, photographs, and engaging anecdotes.
The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions. It explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years; actually produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources; how we can build bases and settlements; and how we can one day "terraform" Mars—a process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.
Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with illustrations, photographs, and engaging anecdotes.
The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions. It explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years; actually produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources; how we can build bases and settlements; and how we can one day "terraform" Mars—a process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.
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“The one bad thing to be said about Zubrin's bold proposal is that thirty years on, we are aggrevatingly further away from his tantalising vision of a manned mission to Mars.
Not only is the Mars Direct plan itself innovative, Zubrin is an eloquent, enthusiastic, and even entertaining advocate - this isn't a dry policy proposal, but instead a rallying call to action I suspect many with an interest in Space Exploration will find hard to resist.”
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“Literally just a book about colonization”
“I recommend this book for anyone interested in space exploration, science and technology. It is as relevant today as it was when it was first published.”
About Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin is president of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D company, and the founder and president of the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by both public and private means. He lives with his wife, Hope, a science teacher, in Golden, Colorado.
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner is the former editor of Ad Astra, the journal of the National Space Society. He lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts.
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