Will This Jewish Spaceman Point NASA Toward Mars?
The science fiction book Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson describes a manned voyage to the red planet. The ship includes an international crew of about a hundred colonists who before long are resurrecting old rivalries and waging interpersonal battles even while dodging billion-particle radiation storms. The large capsule rotates slowly to give its passengers a sense of gravity as it rushes forward at 40,000 kilometers an hour, putting them on Mars roughly 300 days after liftoff. More than 30 years after Red Mars was published, undeterred astronauts and ordinary civilians are taking their first steps toward a trip that...
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