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Robert Zubrin

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Name: Robert Zubrin

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Utah research station simulates life on Mars

HANKSVILLE ? Liz Mitchell helped Jeniffer Johnson and James Veselka into their spacesuits. She helped them hoist on their oxygen tanks, then she helped them screw on their space helmets and gloves.After Johnson and Veselka were dressed, they steped into ... [Published KSL-TV - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Robert Zubrin, Mitchell Johnson, Liz Mitchell, Habitat

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Starship Century, Part Two

Adam Crowl concludes his discussion of the recent Starship Century conference in San Diego. by Adam Crowl Lunch at the Starship Century Symposium was provided by UCSD, allowing attendees to remain nearby, adding to the discussion and trading of ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Robert Zubrin, Jon Lomberg, Paul Davies, Larry Niven

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

University of California San Diego

Report from Starship Century

We’re fortunate to have had Centauri Dreams regular Adam Crowl not just as an attendee but a speaker at the recent Starship Century symposium in San Diego. Here Adam, in the first of a two-part report, gives us a look at the speakers and their ideas. ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Gregory Benford, Freeman Dyson, University of California San Diego, Arthur C Clarke, Allen Steele

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

How to make it to Mars

London - The first people to make the perilous journey to Mars will have to cope with long periods of boredom, the constant worry that they might not return home safely and the joy and pain of each other's company.According to the latest research into ... [Published IOL - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Radiation, Cosmonaut, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,..., Mars Science Laboratory, Cosmic Ray

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Space.com

Mock Mars Mission Will Test Stresses of Red Planet Living

The question of how people can live and work together well on a mission to Mars may turn out to be one of the biggest challenges of deep-space exploration. To simulate the experience of a crew stuck inside cramped quarters under stressful conditions, ... [Published Space.com - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Robert Zubrin, Space.com, Habitat, Google Inc, Wesleyan University

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

New research shows how (not) to make it to Mars

THE first people to make the perilous journey to Mars will have to cope with long periods of boredom, the constant worry of returning home safely and the joy and pain of each other's company. According to the latest research into long-duration space travel, ... [Published Central Queensland News - May 31 2013]

Entities: Radiation, Cosmonaut, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,..., Shielding

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 3 reports

Mission to Mars

The first people to make the perilous journey to Mars will have to cope with long periods of boredom, the constant worry of returning safely and the joy/pain of each other's company.According to the latest research into long-duration space travel, they ... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 31 2013]

Entities: Radiation, Cosmonaut, Shielding, Mars Science Laboratory, Cosmic Ray

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

The private road to Mars

Mars is hard. That?s the message that NASA and others in the space community have hammered into the public for years. It is, they argue, difficult enough to send a spacecraft to Mars, and even harder to land one there, a message clearly communicated by ... [Published Space Review - May 28 2013]

Entities: Robert Zubrin, Dennis Tito, NASA, SpaceX

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Mars Society Proposes A Year-Long Arctic Mission To Better Prepare for the Red Planet

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on TwitterOutside view of a structure at Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station. Credit: Mars SocietyThe Arctic’s a lot like Mars, according to the Mars Society. It’s cold, it’s isolated, ... [Published Universe Today - May 25 2013]

Entities: Robert Zubrin, Jeff Foust, Space Exploration, Space.com

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Thousands want to take one-way trip to Mars, but will you pay their way?

Mars One's founders and would-be astronauts discuss plans to go a one-way trip to the Red Planet in 2023. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");/div> ... [Published Cosmic Log - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Robert Zubrin, Scott Hubbard, Cosmonaut, Norbert Kraft

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Starship Century Symposium May 21-22

The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination is launching in May with what it describes as a ‘series of perspectives’ on what we can expect in the coming century. Its inaugural symposium begins on May 14 at the University of California ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe Haldeman, Jon Lomberg

First reported Mar 27 2013 - Updated Mar 27 2013 - 1 reports

Life Among the Comets

It’s hard to imagine a sane human being who would choose to live in the Oort Cloud, on a colony world where the outside temperature is in the single digits Kelvin and small bands of maybe 25 each would tend to the problems of energy production and ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Mar 27 2013]

Entities: Oort Cloud, Ben Finney, Robert Zubrin

Quotes

"by the time we go to mars a lot of the problems and challenges we may face there will have already been figured out here on earth, thanks in a large part to the mdrs and the reports filed by its crews" Zubrin said in an email

Utah research station simulates life on Mars [Published KSL-TV - Jun 17 2013]

"these results show that cosmic rays are not a showstopper. this confirms what you might expect: the radiation risk is quite acceptable. frankly, it's a modest portion of the risks on a mars mission" Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society in Colorado, told Science

How to make it to Mars [Published IOL - Jun 04 2013]

"frankly, it's a modest portion of the risks on a mars mission" Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society, told Science

Mission to Mars [Published New Zealand Herald - May 31 2013]

...is place foursquare in front of the NASA leadership [that] there's no cause for delay, at least as far as radiation is concerned," Zubrin says. "we should now set our course for mars."

Headed To Mars? Watch Out For Cosmic Rays [Published NPR - May 30 2013]

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Blogs

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Starship Century, Part Two [Published Centauri Dreams - Jun 16 2013] Adam Crowl concludes his discussion of the recent Starship Century conference in San Diego. by Adam Crowl Lunch at the Starship Century Symposium was provided by UCSD, allowing attendees to remain nearby, adding to the discussion and trading of ...
Report from Starship Century [Published Centauri Dreams - Jun 14 2013] We’re fortunate to have had Centauri Dreams regular Adam Crowl not just as an attendee but a speaker at the recent Starship Century symposium in San Diego. Here Adam, in the first of a two-part report, gives us a look at the speakers and their ideas. ...
With so many nice planets out there, why would ... [Published Cosmic Log - Jun 05 2013] In the movie "Pacific Rim," opening in July, seemingly invincible monsters attack Earth. In response, the puny humans design and deploy giant human-shaped robots, run by a crew inside. But with so many planets out there, why would aliens want to attack ...
To Ride the Solar Wind [Published Centauri Dreams - May 09 2013] What we hope to learn from early experiments with the electric sail is whether keeping a steady electric potential on long tethers will give us enough interaction with the solar wind to make for viable propulsion. ESTCube-1, launched earlier this week, ...
Update on Starship Century Symposium [Published Centauri Dreams - May 07 2013] We had a successful launch last night of the ESTCube-1 satellite from Kourou, about which more tomorrow when I’ll be talking about electric sails and their uses both interplanetary and interstellar. But this morning, with the Starship Century Symposium ...