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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... oceans can provide the basis for extensive human settlement to support the Saturnian He3 acquisition operations ... ocean . These results are crude , but the radar on the Cassini probe should al- low us to map out Titan's continents ...
... ocean . Exploring Europa's ocean is now a major target for NASA's exobiologi- cal research program . The main problem is how does one penetrate 50 km of ice ? At least at the surface , the ice is supercold - about -160 ° C . Ice at that ...
... ocean . While the land habitat of the Earth is actually spatially smaller than the oceans , it offers much more variety , and far better possibilities for rate , independent development , than does the sea . It also offers greater chal ...