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Trailblazing Mars : NASA's next giant leap / Pat Duggins.

By: Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.Description: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813035185 (alk. paper)
  • 081303518X (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 629.43/543 22
LOC classification:
  • TL799.M3 D84 2010
Contents:
Prologue -- Mariner sets sail -- The space race to Mars -- Reheating the leftovers of Apollo -- Viking, NASA's "gold bug" -- The twenty-year gap -- The shuttle's long good-bye -- Pioneers past and present -- The Moon, one baby step -- The new "right stuff" -- Lessons from Biosphere 2 -- Plowing the "Back 40" on Mars -- Should NASA go it alone? -- Getting there, living there -- Why go at all? -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- Mariner sets sail -- The space race to Mars -- Reheating the leftovers of Apollo -- Viking, NASA's "gold bug" -- The twenty-year gap -- The shuttle's long good-bye -- Pioneers past and present -- The Moon, one baby step -- The new "right stuff" -- Lessons from Biosphere 2 -- Plowing the "Back 40" on Mars -- Should NASA go it alone? -- Getting there, living there -- Why go at all? -- Epilogue.

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