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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
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AuthorRobert Zubrin
Richard Wagner
Arthur C. Clarke
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNon-fiction
Science
PublisherTouchstone
Publication date
1996
Pages368
ISBN978-0684835501
OCLC34906203
919.9/2304-dc20
LC ClassQB641.Z83 1996

The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must is a nonfiction science book by Robert Zubrin, first published in 1996, and revised and updated in 2011.

The book details Zubrin's Mars Direct plan to make the first human landing on Mars. The plan focuses on keeping costs down by making use of automated systems and available materials on Mars to manufacture the return journey's fuel in situ. The book also reveals possible Mars colony designs and weighs the prospects for a colony's material self-sufficiency and for the terraforming of Mars.

Mars Direct