Trailblazing Mars : NASA's next giant leap /
Pat Duggins.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.
- 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.