Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
by Robert Zubrin
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Author: Robert ZubrinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-08-07
ISBN: 1585420360
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Tarcher
Book Reviews of Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
Book Review: Zubrin does it again. Another great book.
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
--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.
Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in tropical Kenya. We set out from that paradise about 50,000 years ago, north into "the teeth of the Ice Age," and all the ground we've gained since then has been thanks to our tenacity and our tools.
Zubrin reasons that it's time we cover a little more ground. Written with a boyish enthusiasm and formidable techie know-how, Entering Space urges us to realize "the feasibility, the necessity, and the promise" of becoming a space-faring civilization, of colonizing our own solar system and beyond. And Zubrin, author of the influential and widely acclaimed The Case for Mars, knows his stuff--NASA adapted his plans for near-term human exploration of Mars, and Carl Sagan gave the author no less credit: "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." Entering Space plots the second and third phases of humanity's course--now that we've mastered our own planet, Zubrin says we must first look to settling our solar system (beginning with Mars) and then to the galaxy beyond.
With its practicable visions of using "iceteroids" to terraform Mars and harnessing the power of the outlying gas giants ("the solar system's Persian Gulf"), Entering Space succeeds at making the fantastic seem attainable, the stuff of science fiction, science fact. --Paul Hughes
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