Re: (Off Topic) The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin

On 7/4/24 06:04, James Nicoll wrote:
> The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
> 
> How America will put people on Mars by 2010!
> 
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/so-crystal-clear
> 
> Technically not SF, at least not intentionally.

James, your comment "Technically not SF, at least not intentionally."

I was thinking the same thing this week while I was reading
a recently acquired book:

Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
Paperback – August 7, 2000  by Robert Zubrin

from
https://www.amazon.com/Entering-Space-Creating-Spacefaring-Civilization/dp/1585420360

"Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, 
nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, 
he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer 
planets of our own solar system--and beyond."

In the 1970s,,,, and even   2000, it seemed so close.