If someone comes in (as US president in 2009) and has no interest, he can just say, 'thank you for rationalising the space station' and leave it at that.
"Robert Zubrin" is an American Aerospace engineering/aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars. He was the driving force behind Mars Direct—a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Mars#Atmosphere/Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan was subsequently adopted by NASA as their "design reference mission". He questions the delay and cost-to-benefit ratio of first establishing a base or outpost on an asteroid or another Apollo program/Project Apollo-like return to the Moon, as neither would be able to provide all of its own oxygen, water, or energy; these resources are producible on Mars, and he expects people would be there thereafter.
Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Exploration of Mars/Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998. This is an international organization advocating a Manned mission to Mars/manned Mars mission as a goal, by private funding if possible.
Zubrin lives in Lakewood, Colorado; he has two daughters, Rachel and Sarah.
More Robert Zubrin on Wikipedia.This is the first time that anyone has done experiments on higher life in martian-like environment.
The testing of life support systems will certainly be useful, ... But on the psychological side, the real human factor is not whether people go crazy living in a tin: they don't. It's whether they can put up with the overwork once they arrive on Mars and start a rigorous programme of field exploration.
The first rational plan in any sense that I've seen from Nasa in decades.
They have an inferior lunar mission mode per se…but if they make the heavy-lift vehicle, they make everything we need them to make. That's the most important thing the lunar program can give the Mars program.
This is really groundbreaking research, ... There has been almost no research on artificial gravity in space and none concerning martian gravity.
What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later.
This is incredibly exciting. What this means is that we have a chance to find ... extant life.
Will they undergo the same physiological deterioration we see at zero g [gravity], or will one-third g be enough to counteract that effect?
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