From Imagination to Reality: Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society : Base Building, Colonization and Terraformation
Volume 92 of the Science and Technology Series From Imagination to Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (Part 2, Base Building, Colonization and Terraformation)
Robert M. Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of human exploration of Mars. He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal in a 1990 research paper intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission.