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Title: Best book on space exploration in almost fifty years.
Review: After having read an enormous amount of astronomy/space literature for over fifty years I can safely state that Dr. Zubrin's book Mars Direct is the best popular work published since Arthur C. Clarke's monumental The Exploration of Space appeared in the early fifties. In an exceptionally convincing and lucid style Dr. Zubrin elaborates on how Mars can be explored and settled by humans using cheap contemporary off the shelf technology. Presently, humanity desperately needs a new and challenging frontier in order to escape from scientific stagnation due to ever increasing governmental bureucracy and regulations. It is my firm belief that man is destined to conquer the vastness of space and explore first our Galaxy and later most of the observable Universe. Now Dr. Zubrin has shown us how an important early step in this process can be accomplished within the next decade. - - Reynir Eyjolfsson Ph.D., Iceland.
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