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Jul. 01, 2011
Is Settling Mars Inevitable, Or An Impossibility?
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| In The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, Robert Zubrin argues that America is more prepared to send astronauts to Mars today than we were to send astronauts to the Moon in 1961. And he thinks we should, despite considerable risk to potential colonists. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Robert Zubrin
Author, "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must" (Free Press, 1996)
President, The Mars Society
Golden, Colorado
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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
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