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Author: Peter Kokh
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Published: 2018-10
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9781983253522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Kokh, the President Emeritus of the Moon Society, and the author of the Moon Miners' Manifesto newsletter which has been published since 1986, provides a guidebook for pioneering and living on the Moon. This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of living on the Moon and beginning to build a thriving Lunar civilization.
Author: Robert Zubrin
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0307450112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThinking 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? Straight from the not-so-distant future, this intrepid pioneer’s tips for physical, financial, and social survival on the Red Planet cover: • How to get to Mars (Cycling spacecraft offer cheap rides, but the smell is not for everyone.) • Choosing a spacesuit (The old-fashioned but reliable pneumatic Neil Armstrong style versus the sleek new—but anatomically unforgiving—elastic “skinsuit.”) • Selecting a habitat (Just like on Earth: location, location, location.) • Finding a job that pays well and doesn’t kill you (This is not a metaphor on Mars.) • How to meet the opposite sex (Master more than forty Mars-centric pickup lines.) With more than twenty original illustrations by Michael Carroll, Robert Murray, and other renowned space artists, How to Live on Mars seamlessly blends humor and real science, and is a practical and exhilarating guide to life on our first extraterrestrial home.
Author: Robert Zubrin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1471109887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 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. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with illustrations, photographs, and engaging anecdotes. The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions. It explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years; actually produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources; how we can build bases and settlements; and how we can one day "terraform" Mars; a process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.
Author: William Sheehan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 081654686X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty years after the Viking missions of the ’70s, we are finally going back to Mars. No fewer than ten missions are planned for the period between 1996 and 2003, and it is likely that human explorers will follow soon after--perhaps by the middle of the twenty-first century. When they do, they will owe much to the Mars of romance, to the early pioneers whose discoveries and disappointments are brought to life in The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery. In this timely and vividly written account, William Sheehan traces human fascination with Mars back to the naked-eye observers of the planet. He recalls the early telescopic observers who first made out enigmatic markings and polar caps on its surface. Through lively historical anecdotes, he describes in detail the debate over the so-called canals of Mars, which encouraged speculation that the planet might be inhabited. Finally, Sheehan describes more recent theories about the planet, leading up to the present, when unmanned spacecraft have enabled us to make giant strides in exploration. Well documented and sparked with human interest, this book will be a useful companion and guide in interpreting the barrage of headlines about Mars that is sure to come over the next few years. Amateurs will appreciate the contributions that have been made to Martian studies by people like themselves, and professionals will find much original material that has never before been published. The American Mars Global Surveyor is scheduled for launch in November 1996, and soon after the American Mars Pathfinder will make its way toward the red planet. A Russian mission consisting of an orbiter and two landers will be launched in October 1997. These space travelers will write a whole new chapter in the dramatic story of Mars, a planet whose exploration has only just begun. Astronomy Book Club main selection and selections of Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club.
Author: Paul Magrs
Publisher: Firefly Press
Published: 2015-05-14
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1910080233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the scale and scope of a great sci-fi epic, this is the story of Lora and her family, third generation settlers on the red planed, who are struggling to survive o a smallholding in the desert landscape, surviving storms and sinister rumours of unexplained disappearances - until one night Lora sees the Dancers. When her father and grandmother disappear, Lora and her family are driven out to seek a new life across the plains. But none of them are ready for what they find - the beautiful and dangerous City Inside.
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Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
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Total Pages: 77
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David S. F. Portree
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clive Gifford
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780199107384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders the science that would be involved in establishing a colony on Mars. Looks at space exploration and travel, the geography of Mars, and terraforming. Includes simple experiments. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author: Oliver Morton
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2002-10-04
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0312707932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton explores the peculiar and fascinating world of the new generation of explorers: geologists, scientists, astrophysicists and dreamers. Morton shows us the complex and beguiling role that mapping will play in our understanding of the red planet, and more deeply, what it means for humans to envision such heroic landscapes. Charting a path from the 19th century visionaries to the spy-satellite pioneers to the science fiction writers and the arctic explorers -- till now, to the people are taking us there -- Morton unveils the central place that Mars has occupied in the human imagination, and what it will mean to realize these dreams. A pioneering work of journalism and drama, Mapping Mars gives us our first exciting glimpses of the world to come and the curious, bizarre, and amazing people who will take us there.
Author: William K. Hartmann
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-02-15
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780812580396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA search for a scientist who disappeared while exploring the Martian desert. He is Alwyn Stafford and as the search progresses it becomes clear he has discovered something which other people want kept hidden. A new alien civilization? A first novel by a Mars astronomer.
