![Trailblazing Mars: NASA's Next Giant Leap | [Pat Duggins]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516aaVFcaZL._SL175_.jpg "Trailblazing Mars: NASA's Next Giant Leap | [Pat Duggins]")
Trailblazing Mars: NASA's Next Giant Leap
- UNABRIDGED
- by
- Narrated by
-
- Regular Price :£15.29Special Offer: Learn how to get this for £3.99 !
-
Average Customer Rating
-
-
LENGTH7 hrs and 23 mins
-
RELEASE DATE26/04/2012
-
AUDIO FORMATS
-
Program TypeAudiobook
-
PUBLISHER
People who bought this also bought...
Publisher's Summary
Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles - both technological and financial - have kept human exploration of the red planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream.
Award-winning journalist Pat Duggins examines the extreme new challenges that will be faced by astronauts on the journey there and back. They'll have to grow their own food, find their own water, and solve their own problems and emergencies without hope of rescue or re-supply. Mars travel will be more challenging and hazardous than settling the Old West - but we were not witness to the fate of the Donner Party on CNN.
Can the technological hurdles be cleared? Will the public accept the very real possibility of astronaut death? Should a mission be publicly or privately funded? Is the science worth the cost? These and many other questions are answered in Duggins's exciting new book.
©2010 Patrick Duggins (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks
What the Critics Say
"Duggins gives you the how of the process along with the facts. Who knows what trails this book will help blaze." (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
"Duggins has written a marvelous book, sure to inspire our imaginations and remind us that all space travel ultimately arises from human ingenuity." (Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American Imagination)