Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization Paperback - 2000
by Robert Zubrin
Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Zubrin takes readers to the not-very-distant future, when the global society will branch out into the universe. With the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements, he delivers a forward-looking work on space and human exploration.
Summary
--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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- Title Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
- Author Robert Zubrin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date 2000-08-07
- Features Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781585420360 / 1585420360
- Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.09 x 5.96 x 0.84 in (23.09 x 15.14 x 2.13 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Science
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99024725
- Dewey Decimal Code 919.904
