![]() Zubrin's plan calls for a travel-light and live-off-the-land approach. ![]() In the great tradition of human exploration, Dr. The possibilities for exploration and discovery are nearly limitless but significant exploration of Mars can only occur on her surface, and in order to do that we must be able to survive there. Unlike the dead world of the Moon, the Martian landscape abounds with ancient canyons, dried river beds, the remains of frozen polar oceans, and enormous ice caps. Zubrin's plan will revive our hopes and dreams and convince us that other worlds can be reached - affordably and within our lifetime. Presented here with illustrations, photographs, and engaging anecdotes, Dr. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, that experts are hailing as the most visionary and pragmatic step toward expanding human activity in space since the Apollo Moon landings. Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. The planet most like ours, the planet where life may have once existed, but a planet thought to be impossible to reach and even more impossible to explore and inhabit. Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream - the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. ![]()
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