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The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
Free Press
November 1997
On Sale: November 6, 1997
368 pages
ISBN: 0684835509
EAN: 9780684835501
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Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dreamβthe 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" Marsβa process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.
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