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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sidran" data-source="post: 471066" data-attributes="member: 6160">If you are truely interested in Missions to Mars you should check out the really good book by Dr. Robert Zubrin (forget the name at the moement) But it talks about feasible ways to get to Mars (Fast track flights, and so on) Then I recomend reading most of Dr. Ben Bova's Mar's books (Though Fiction they detail the difficulities of going to mars) Also Gregory Benfords The Martian Race, and Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars Trilogy ( Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, and the Tack on Purple Mars.) These also show the difficulties and the two major motivations for going verses not going. Personally I feel that Space is our next frontier (that or the deep sea) Fact is we really do not need to go to mars for anything other than Science ( As much as I hate to say it) The real thing we need to do is get a mining operation out in the Asteroid belt (which despite critics arguments) Is the most financial way to get into space. In this case we would more likely want a Colony on the Moon where there is no Atmosphere and it would be easy to ship materials down and finished products out. Also I see us building an O'neal station long before we would ever put a hab down on Mars. Me I have been dreaming of the Red Planet since I was a Little boy. I would have loved to go on a tourist trip to see Mount Olympus mons when I am old and graying.The real way we will end up with Cities in Space is if we fund it ourselves by finding a reliable corporation (more like two or four) to fund the first missions to the outer solar system.  Or at least getting a Corp. to have a joint Contract with NASA, or other world space agencies to colonize mars, etc.</blockquote>

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