Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization Reprint Edition

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"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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Robert Zubrin is an internationally renowned astronautical engineer and the acclaimed author of The Case for Mars. NASA recently adapted his humans-to-Mars mission plan. A former senior engineer at Lockheed Martin, Zubrin is the founder of Pioneer Astronautics, a successful space exploration and development firm. He lives in Indian Hills, Colorado.

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Publisher: TarcherPerigee; Reprint edition (August 7, 2000)
Language: English
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A Tremendous View into the Future, with Profound Insights from the Past!

April 19, 2016

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This is a very visionary and profound work by Dr. Zubrin; it is an outline of what could/should be man's destiny in the universe, and was to me, inspiring. To say the very least...I learned a LOT about the engineering aspects of what has already been accomplished, and what lies ahead. I've already developed a "books to buy" list, based on what was presented. Even with my engineering school background in analytical mechanics, I was somewhat overwhelmed by the casually discussed mathematical insights herein. Be forewarned: be prepared to drag out your college Physics textbooks, and Chemistry textbooks, in order to fully appreciate what is splendidly presented. The chemistry of the Sabatier reaction and other simple organic for me is a breeze, but introducing the nuclear chemistry showed the voids in my own technical background! Wow! Zubrin paints a view of mankind's future that excites me, and makes me wish I were 20 years younger in order to more fully participate as we move ahead.

All of my Kudos are warranted; be advised this is not an easy or casual read, and is a charmingly and sometimes humorously written scientific masterpiece. Only 5 stars allowed? I'd give it a lot more than that; I'm buying additional copies to send my colleagues!

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Thomas Erickson

Zubrin does it again. Another great book.

December 5, 2009

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Dr Robert Zubrin is a masterful past rocket engineer, president of the Mars Society and great writer. Read A Case for Mars (5 stars), Mars on Earth (5 stars) and How to Live on Mars (3 stars). His second book Entering Space ( Case For Mars was first) is well written and an easy read. Finished it in 2 days.

A few parts of rocket formulas are a little technical and the first few chapters are a little slow to get going but after that his book is a rocket ship. Wonderful. Plus there are several futuristic beautiful colored artwork pages showing some of the things he describes.

Robert lists civilization into three categories. #1 Beginning of mankind to complete communication global network and space program a little more advanced than today. #2 Man's exploration and colonization of the solar system. moon observatories, research center, Mars colony, asteroid mining, outer plant Helium 3 harvesting for using a deuterium/he3 mixture for fusion reactors, moving ice asteroids for water, metal gathering of asteroids, and a sling shot effect around Jupiter and/or Saturn is discussed. Much much more. #3 Galactic exploration. He goes into possible propulsion systems to take us to the stars using present understanding of physics without going into the obscure and way out theories.

The Mars Society is discussed as well as the HAB ( Mars research station) to be built on Devon Island in the far north Arctic. They actually do it. Read his #3 book Mars on Earth (5 stars).

Again in Entering Space Robert talks about "Mars Direct" which is the safest and most economical way of sending a crew of 4 to Mars and back and allowing them 1 1/2 years to explore the Red Planet.

If NASA ever goes this "Mars Direct" route (and it should) I strongly believe Dr. Zubrin should get a Nobel Prize. I was so impressed with Dr. Zubrin's writings, his "Mars Direct" idea and the back breaking hard work he and others did on Devon Island . Plus being interested in the expansion of the human race and Mars colonization ,I became a paid Mars Society member.

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Frank Paris

Human flesh will not do the "terraforming"

January 11, 2000

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After writing my previous review, I had some further thoughts on this book, which causes me to downgrade my rating by a point. First, the book seems curiously inconsistent. For most of the book, he seems to have a cowboy attitude about space travel, with about the same ethical sensibilities as the Spanish conquistadors: land on the planet and "terraform" it without any thought to the "rights" of the life forms that might already be there. We, as human beings, are naturally conquerors and will just be following our nature to do so (just as we are currently in the process of devastating our own planet, Earth, by the way). Only towards the end of the book does he discuss one of the reasons why we see no scientific evidence of extraterrestrials visiting planet Earth: they may regard us as a "designated wilderness area," with the right to determine our own destiny and future evolution. In other words, as ancient and wise beings, they probably have adopted a policy of non-interference with primitive life forms (which we would be, relative to them). In fact, NASA itself already has established policies of non-interference, in its plans for searching for life on Mars, and so Zubrin's swashbuckling mentality seems curiously outdated for such a far-reaching book. On the other hand, Zubrin completely overlooks one aspect of our own growing technology that might provide an answer as to why we haven't seen any evidence of extraterrestrials. He implicitly assumes that we MUST have humans do the advanced exploration, because robotic probes aren't intelligent enough. Well, realistically, we probably won't plant anything close to a human intelligence on Mars for another fifty years (in spite of his arguments that we could do it in ten). But by then, robotics will have advanced to the point where artificial intelligence is at least equal to human intelligence. Our progress in space exploration may be uncertain, but progress in robotics isn't. We've been unsuccessful so far because of the limited computational power available, but in fifty years it will be a million times greater than it is now, and we will surely have developed robots that will be far more capable than we are to explore extraterrestrial surfaces. They will be at least as smart as we are, and far more "environmentally safe" and far more physically capable than we. MACHINES are what will inherit the universe, not flimsy human flesh. The extraterrestrials haven't revealed themselves to us because they know how devastatingly demoralizing it would be to reveal to us that they are made of metal and silicon that has far surpassed anything that could ever evolve organically. Think about THAT for a while.

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