First Landing

For the park, see First Landing State Park. For the racehorse, see First Landing (horse).

First Landing is a 2002 science fiction novel by Robert Zubrin that tells the story of the first manned space expedition to Mars. Zubrin is the head of the Mars Society, an organization lobbying the real world NASA to send astronauts to Mars. The plan used to accomplish their mission in the book is the same one advocated by his group.

In the novel, the explorers discover bacterial life on Mars and are abandoned due to political circumstances, and must fend for themselves if they want to return to Earth, thus highlighting many of the more robust features of Zubrin's plan for Mars.

Zubrin also wrote The Case for Mars, a detailed nonfiction explanation of the same plan.

Editions

ISBN 0-441-00963-8 (paperback, 2002)
ISBN 0-441-00859-3 (hardcover, 2002)

Robert Zubrin

Books	The Case for Mars Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization Mars On Earth: The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic First Landing The Holy Land Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts Energy Victory How to Live on Mars Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

See also	Mars Direct Mars Society Ethics of terraforming Nuclear salt-water rocket Magnetic sail

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 27, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.