I recommend this book to all who are interested in knowing what their children, grandchildren and more distant offspring will be doing in the centuries to come.Įntering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization (2000) by Robert Zubrin is a remarkable book the gives a remarkable view of how humanity can actually go into space. The book begins with the current state of space exploration: capabilities, missions, goals, technologies, etc., It then begins to discuss the near future, including missions to mars, returning to the moon, and then progressing along a logical path into the future of space exploration. (Also, I plan on going to this year's Space Development Conference in Florida, where Zubrin will speak). Having read his previous book 'The Case For Mars', I was expecting optimism and brilliance, and this more than delivered. All of which are warranted, as Zubrin is clearly the most visionary, optimistic, and forward thinking aeronautical engineer around. Zubrin blew my mind a number of times, and in later chapters it appears that Zubrin is blowing his own mind, based on the prevalence of conclusions he makes accentuated with exclamation marks in ellipses (!!!). This is the future of human civilization and it is astounding.
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