Trailblazing Mars
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Trailblazing Mars

NASA's Next Giant Leap

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eBook - ePub

Trailblazing Mars

NASA's Next Giant Leap

About this book

Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles--both technological and financial--have kept human exploration of the red planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream.

Award-winning journalist Pat Duggins examines the extreme new challenges that will be faced by astronauts on the journey there and back. They'll have to grow their own food, find their own water, and solve their own problems and emergencies without hope of rescue or re-supply. Mars travel will be more challenging and hazardous than settling the Old West--but we were not witness to the fate of the Donner Party on CNN.

Can the technological hurdles be cleared? Will the public accept the very real possibility of astronaut death? Should a mission be publicly or privately funded? Is the science worth the cost? These and many other questions are answered in Duggins's exciting new book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue
  6. 1. Mariner Sets Sail
  7. 2. The Space Race to Mars
  8. 3. Reheating the Leftovers of Apollo
  9. 4. Viking, NASA’s “Gold Bug”
  10. 5. The Twenty-Year Gap
  11. 6. The Shuttle’s Long Good-bye
  12. 7. Pioneers Past and Present
  13. 8. The Moon, One Baby Step
  14. 9. The New “Right Stuff”
  15. 10. Lessons from Biosphere 2
  16. 11. Plowing the “Back 40” on Mars
  17. 12. Should NASA Go It Alone?
  18. 13. Getting There, Living There
  19. 14. Why Go at All?
  20. Epilogue
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Notes
  23. Suggested Reading
  24. Index
  25. About the Author