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3-D Printing Plus Local Sourcing Make Mars Cheap
No Astronauts Needed!
NASA has plans to send astronauts to the moon and then Mars. There will be a program to do this, tentatively named Aries, for the Mars portion at least. The crews are being carefully selected from thousands of applicants. They will be thoroughly trained. They will fly...
Book Review: The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
The Case for Mars By Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner Free Press (revised edition) ©1996 revised 2011 This book transformed my thinking about human travel to Mars. Like every other space geek in 1996, I assumed humanity’s first voyage to the red planet would...
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About Glenn Damato
Glenn Damato studied physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa. He served in the US Navy as a nuclear propulsion plant operator aboard an attack submarine. He has worked as a cook, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a loan officer, a debt collector, a technical support engineer, and a software instructor. A lifelong space and aviation enthusiast, he holds a pilot’s license and while at sea level he enjoys sailing. He is the author of the bestselling memoir Breaking Seas. The Far Shore is his first novel.