The Case for Mars - Softcover

Zubrin, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684835509 ISBN 13: 9780684835501

Verlag: Free Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Zubrin, formerly a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin, is the founder of Pioneer Astronautics, a space-exploration research and development firm. Currently chairman of the executive committee of the National Space Society, Dr. Zubrin lives with his family in Indian Hills, Colorado.

Richard Wagner is the former editor of Ad Astra, the journal of the National Space Society.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Free Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0684835509
• ISBN 13: 9780684835501
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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