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Table of Contents
About The Book
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" Marsa process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.
Product Details
- Publisher: Free Press (June 28, 2011)
- Length: 368 pages
- ISBN13: 9781451665765
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Raves and Reviews
“Worth reading.”
— Elon Musk
"Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue."
— Carl Sagan
“This book shows how a flight to Mars has progressed from fantasy to… a reality.”
— Buzz Aldrin
“One of the most provocative and hopeful documents I have read about the space program in 20 years.”
— Dennis Overbye, The New York Times Book Review
“In this thoughtful, thorough and inspiring book... [Zubrin] systematically and convincingly destroys the conventional wisdom about Mars travel.”
— Newsday
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