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Robert 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. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan was subsequently adopted by NASA as their "design reference mission". He questions the delay and cost-to-benefit ratio of first establishing a base or outpost on an asteroid or another Apollo program-like return to the Moon, as neither would be able to provide all of its own oxygen, water, or energy; these resources are producible on Mars, and he expects people would be there thereafter.
Born
Wednesday, 09 April 1952
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Glad You Asked | Self - Aerospace Engineer | 2019 |
Behind the Wings | Self | 2019 |
MARS: Inside SpaceX | Self | 2018 |
Fight for Space | Self - Astronautical Engineer / Himself | 2017 |
Mars | Self - President, The Mars Society | 2016 |
Space's Deepest Secrets | Self - President of the Mars Society | 2016 |
Destination Mars | Self | 2015 |
Xploration Outer Space | Self - President, Pioneer Astronautics / Self - Founder, The Mars Society / Self - Author, The Case For Mars | 2014 |
Pump | Self | 2014 |
How the Universe Works | Self - Aerospace Engineer | 2010 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Glad You Asked | Self - Aerospace Engineer | 2019 |
Behind the Wings | Self | 2019 |
MARS: Inside SpaceX | Self | 2018 |
Fight for Space | Self - Astronautical Engineer / Himself | 2017 |
Mars | Self - President, The Mars Society | 2016 |
Space's Deepest Secrets | Self - President of the Mars Society | 2016 |
Destination Mars | Self | 2015 |
Xploration Outer Space | Self - President, Pioneer Astronautics / Self - Founder, The Mars Society / Self - Author, The Case For Mars | 2014 |
Pump | Self | 2014 |
How the Universe Works | Self - Aerospace Engineer | 2010 |
Mars: Making the New Earth | Self - President, The Mars Society | 2009 |
Mars Rising | Self | 2007 |
The Mars Underground | Himself / Self | 2007 |
The Universe | Self - President, The Mars Society | 2007 |
Is It Real? | Self - President, The Mars Society | 2005 |
History's Mysteries | Self | 1998 |