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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... DC - X program in 1991 . The DC - X ( for Delta Clipper - Experimental ) program was inspired by visionary engineers Max Hunter and Gary Hudson , who since the 1970s had been campaigning for the development of a wingless , conical SSTO ...
... DC - X program . But by then his message had been sent . NASA , which had been very skeptical of the DC - X program , decided to ride the popular tide that Worden had un- leashed by adopting the SSTO cause as its own . Thus , in 1994 ...
... DC - X VTVL design since the 1970s , and together with fel- low visionary launch system engineer Max Hunter could rightfully claim credit as one of the spiritual fathers of that program . During the 1980s , Hudson actually tried to ...