Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond. |
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... NASA's Lunar Prospector probe in 1998. Then in 1996 , NASA's Galileo probe uncovered evidence for what appears to be an ocean of liquid water under the ice - covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa . Also in 1996 , NASA scientists ...
... NASA leaders left ( a ) up to the engi- neers to solve as best they could , but attempted to solve ( b ) themselves through political action . Specifically , the NASA brass in the late 1970s and early 1980s obtained agreements from the ...
... NASA , of a proximity operations vehicle ( a “ proxops ” stage ) that would hang around the station and grab resupply payloads delivered to the general vicinity by commercial suppliers . The NASA - run proxops vehicle would then gently ...