Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
by Robert Zubrin
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Author: Robert ZubrinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); 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's got it goin on.
Summary: 5 Stars
If your really into realistic ideas and plans for space exploration and future human travels then you must read this book. I'm no math or science major but Zubrin writes to a happy medium that anyone with the enthusium for the topic can easily follow along with. Great book full of brilliant designs and superb desciptions. You'll be daydreaming for weeks after reading this one.
Summary of Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
The man celebrated as "the Christopher Columbus of Mars" brings us to the very brink of human exploration.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.
"An exhilarating and informative ride." --The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise
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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