With the potentially imminent advent of low cost heavy lift capability, Zubrin has posited a dramatically lower cost manned Mars mission utilizing hardware developed by space transport company SpaceX.

Although no specific mission has yet been defined, it will most likely follow the Mars Direct concept developed by Robert Zubrin.

As part of the Mars Direct plan, Mars exploration advocate Robert Zubrin and other baselined an " inline " SDV concept developed by engineers at NASA and Martin Marietta.

Robert Zubrin and Dana Andrews analyzed one hypothetical version of the Bussard ramscoop and ramjet design in 1985.

This condition resulted in the drag force exceeding the thrust of the hypothetical ramjet in the Zubrin / Andrews version of the design.

The current board of directors of the Mars Society includes Robert Zubrin ( chairman ), James Heiser, and Declan O ' Donnell.

Its aim is to convince the Swiss public of the interest and feasibility of the Martian exploration with inhabited flights through the Mars direct concept such as described by Robert Zubrin.

It was originally detailed in a research paper by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, and later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars.

Zubrin came to understand that if NASA's plan was to fully utilize as many technologies as possible in support of sending the mission to Mars, it would become politically untenable.

Zubrin and Baker pitched Mars Direct at the Marshall Spaceflight Center, where reception was generally positive.

Zubrin remained committed to the strategy, and after parting with David Baker attempted to convince the new NASA administration of Mars Direct's merits in 1992.

Since Mars Direct was initially conceived, it has undergone regular review and development by Zubrin himself, the Mars Society, NASA, Stanford University and others.

Robert Zubrin ( born April 19, 1952 ) is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.

Zubrin recounts the origins and progress of the Mars Society's Mars Analog Research Station project, including a variety of perils, both mundane and adventurous, that were overcome in establishing the first analog Mars habitat on Devon Island in the high Arctic.

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

* Proceedings of the Founding Convention of the Mars Society ( 1999 ), co-edited with Maggie Zubrin.

This contains articles corresponding to talks presented at the founding convention of the Mars Society in Boulder, Colorado in August 1998 ; it includes contributions from Zubrin, Buzz Aldrin, Martyn Fogg, and many others.

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

Robert Zubrin was also recently featured in a CBC Television documentary special The Passionate Eye dubbed " The Mars Underground ".

The lyrics form an acrostic spelling " Robert The Case For Mars Zubrin ".

Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin produced a plan for a Mars return mission called Mars Direct that would set up a permanent human presence on Mars and steer efforts towards eventual terraformation .< ref >

The Mars Direct plan was originally detailed by Zubrin and David Baker in 1990.

For Zubrin, the attractiveness of Mars Direct does not rest on a single cost-effective mission.

Most notably, Robert Zubrin wrote a fictional account of a Mars Direct mission in his novel First Landing ( Ace, 2001 ).

Robert Zubrin credits this paper as a forerunner of the Mars Direct mission architecture, in which French's concern is resolved by devoting a separate spacecraft to the return trip, so that it can be verified as fueled and ready to launch from Mars before the crew launches from Earth.

The Mars Gravity Biosatellite program began in 2001 as a Mars Society initiative called Translife that grew out of a discussion between Robert Zubrin and Elon Musk.

It was founded by Robert Zubrin and others in 1998 and attracted the support of notable science fiction writers and filmmakers, including Kim Stanley Robinson and James Cameron.

While working at Martin Marietta designing interplanetary mission architectures, Robert Zubrin perceived a fundamental flaw in the SEI program.

While they focused primarily on more traditional mission architectures, Zubrin began to collaborate with colleague David Baker on an extremely simple, stripped-down and robust strategy.

In November 2003, Zubrin was invited to speak to the U. S. Senate committee on the future of space exploration.

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Zubrin lives in Lakewood, Colorado ; he has two daughters, Rachel and Sarah.

Zubrin holds a B. A.

Zubrin is the co-inventor on a U. S. design patent and a U. S. utility patent on a hybrid rocket / airplane, and on a U. S. utility patent on an oxygen supply system ( see links below ).

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It developed Community Weaver software now widely used with over 11, 000 participants.

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