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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.
Fulfilling the dream as NASA prepares to send astronauts to Mars
"Duggins gives you the how of the process along with the facts. Who
knows what trails this book will help blaze. Read on."--Bill Nye
the Science Guy(R) and executive director of The Planetary Society
"From the Mariner probes of the 1960s to the rovers " and " from
fanciful human travel in science fiction to realities for human
exploration in the future, this book places into context the lure
of the red planet and our desire to know it
better."Spirit"Opportunity, "--Roger Launius, Senior Curator,
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution "Mars may be
the destination, but the book is really a study of the people who
have taken us as far as we have come. Duggins has written a
marvelous book, sure to inspire our imaginations and remind us that
all space travel ultimately arises from human ingenuity."--Howard
McCurdy, author of Space and the American Imagination 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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