The Mars Project

By Wernher von Braun

Book Overview

This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the problems and possibilities inherent in a projected expedition to Mars.

Today von Braun is recognized as the person most responsible for laying the groundwork for public acceptance of America's space program. When President Bush directed NASA in 1989 to prepare plans for an orbiting space station, lunar research bases, and human exploration of Mars, he was largely echoing what von Braun proposed in The Mars Project.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252062272
• ISBN13: 9780252062278
• Release Date: October 1962
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A book for the true space junkie.

Do you wonder how they did it? How they actually figured out how to get to the moon? Well, this is Von Braun's plan for getting to mars using the technologies available in the early 1950's and it shows the detailed thinking necessary to figure out how to make it all work. Lots of math and diagrams. My vote for the best book of the century. To give you some idea, I already own this book, a 1962 edition. It is getting too precious to thumb through.