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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... Space Station program . In the early 1980s , NASA Deputy Administrator Hans Mark saw clearly that achieving a ... space scientific research ( Mark did not believe the forty launches per year touted by earlier Shuttle advocates was ...
... Space Station , which will be fairly well equipped for such work . Indeed , microgravity research has been frequently used as one of the primary justifications of the Space Station program . Be- cause the Space Station program has been ...
... space station during a Progress module resupply practice mission in the summer of 1997. Now consider : The Hub- ble Space Telescope cost $ 2 billion ; the International Space Station will cost $ 20 billion . NASA managers are ...