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The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an... (learn more about this book)
Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed.... (learn more about this book)
This ambitious book is a personal psycho-spiritual journey, a theorization on the meaning of the monuments of Mars, a guidebook for transcending present three-dimensional limitations, and an account of our function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. The... (learn more about this book)
"Mars Exploration: A Brief History" presents a comprehensive look at the Red Planet in a compact, interactive format. This digital compendium sheds light on major scientific and technological discoveries. It also helps you track the evolution of Mars exploration and fascination from Ancient... (learn more about this book)
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.... (learn more about this book)
teve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at... (learn more about this book)
A science fiction novel first published in 1936 as "Planet Plane" (George Newnes Limited, London), then serialised in 1935 as "Stowaway to Mars" and again in 1937 as "The Space Machine." First published under the pen name "John Beynon," "John Wyndham" is also a pseudonum of John Wyndham Parkes... (learn more about this book)
Thinking about moving to mars? Well, why not? Mars, after all, is the planet that holds the greatest promise for human colonization. But why speculate about the possibilities when you can get the real scientific scoop from someone who’s been happily living and working there for years?... (learn more about this book)
For many years Richard Hoagland alone hypothesized that sentient beings spent time on Mars millions of ye ars ago assembling behemoth structures whose ruins are still seen today. Here Hoagland redefines the solar system as a different place than NASA has presented. The book includes a new... (learn more about this book)
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