Case For Mars

Since The Beginning Of Human History Mars Has Been An Alluring Dream; The Stuff Of Legends, Gods, And Mystery. The Planet Most Like Ours, It Has Still Been Thought Impossible To Reach, Let Alone Explore And Inhabit. Now With The Advent Of A Revolutionary New Plan, All This Has Changed. Leading Space Exploration Authority Robert Zubrin Has Crafted A Daring New Blueprint, Mars Direct, Presented Here With Illustrations, Photographs, And Engaging Anecdotes. The Case For Mars Is Not A Vision For The Far Future Or One That Will Cost Us Impossible Billions. It Explains Step-by-step How We Can Use Present-day Technology To Send Humans To Mars Within Ten Years; Actually Produce Fuel And Oxygen On The Planet's Surface With Martian Natural Resources; How We Can Build Bases And Settlements; And How We Can One Day Terraform Mars; A Process That Can Alter The Atmosphere Of Planets And Pave The Way For Sustainable Life.