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# The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

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    A Compelling Case
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020*

Just under a year ago from when I'm writing these words was a half-century since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. We're just under two and a half years away from when Apollo 17 left the Moon and ended humanity's forays into deep space, to date anyway. Since then, the question has remained the same, "what next?" If you're Robert Zubrin, then that answer can be summed up in one word: Mars. And in 1996, and with updating in 2011, he made a compelling case for the Red Planet.Fundamentally, The Case for Mars is precisely that. Zubrin, the founder of the Mars Society and co-creator of the Mars Direct plan, put forward just how we might get to the Red Planet in the short term. Across nearly 190 pages, Zubrin offers a crash course on Mars and his proposal. Readers get the history of the human fascination with Mars, our robotic efforts to explore the planet, and just why we haven't put human boots on its surface yet. Doing that, Zubrin gets into the bit he is most earnest about: talking about how to get a crew to Mars. Those familiar with the Mars Direct proposal via numerous documentaries and articles will find a full laying out of what such a voyage will take, from hardware and crew selection to the risks involved. If you need convincing that Mars is a place to go to, and that Mars Direct is the way to do it, then the first half of the book is what you need. Even better, it's written in a style and language where almost anyone can understand it.It's in the back half, give or take, where the book runs into some trouble. Getting into colonization and the question of terraforming, the book becomes far more technical than it had been in previous chapters. To the point that, as a space enthusiast rather than being an engineer or chemist, I found myself a little out of my depth, I'm not afraid to say. The concluding chapter, The View from Earth, and the epilogue too, for that matter, likely won't sit well with some readers, especially with the nostalgic angle for both the golden days of Apollo and the American frontier. For a book that is so much about looking forward, it suddenly feels very backward-looking. Not to mention Zubrin's support for a potential Anasazi X Prize model to get to Mars in the final chapter. After all, the events of the last decade suggest that, despite the hype around it, it isn't likely to produce the Mars mission that Zubrin hopes it will.For all of its flaws, Zubrin makes a compelling Case for Mars. Indeed, you can see his influence on Mars missions both in fiction (the film Mission to Mars or Andy Weir's novel The Martian) and in reality with NASA's planning. A human voyage to the Red Planet is still a ways off, but one can't help but feel that Zubrin's book and advocacy have gotten us closer. And that, when we do go, it'll likely be something akin to what he described here.

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    Maybe you should join the Mars Society.
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2020*

I was born in 1981. All I have ever known is the era of failure and stagnation at NASA. I saw the Challenger blow up, they showed it in most classes in America, because there was a teacher was on board. As a young man I would read Popular Science. I would complain to friends about NASA not progressing. That space exploration had died because lesser men had failed to understand what it had given us. This book was written at a time when the do nothing attitude at NASA was at it's worst. We once did great things. We knew that we had to create the future. It doesn't just happen. This book speaks to that pioneering instinct in some of us.It's a shot across the bow, a challenge to society. I found it excellent, hilarious, charming and very informative.

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    Astonishing array of inter-disciplinary analyses of how and why Mars should be mankind's next step
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017*

Very articulate treatment of technical, technological, medical, economic, and political factors promoting and limiting pursuit of humanity's next true frontier-Mars. Author debunks politically motivated economic arguments against our next celestial outreach by showing clearly that we can begin to travel to and populate Mars AND make it moderately habitable with the technology we have now and have already paid to develop. Very exciting and layman friendly read.

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