THE CASE FOR MARS

Reviewed 3/29/2003

THE CASE FOR MARS: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
Robert Zubrin
with Richard Wagner
New York: The Free Press, 1996

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-684-82757-5
ISBN 0-684-82757-3 328pp. HC/BWI $25.00

Errata

Page 24: "Kepler catapulted the status of humanity in the universe."
  Misuse of the verb "catapulted". The sentence should describe how the status of humanity was catapulted, or where it was catapulted to (e.g. upwards).
Page 25: "Utilizing on observations made between 1777 and 1783, William Herschel... "
  Should be "Utilizing observations"
Page 31: "The Viking landers also carried an X-ray florescence instrument capable of assessing the elemental composition of the soil..."
  Should be "fluorescence". "Florescence" is a word; but it means the act of blooming or flowering.
Page 33: "...after years of laboratory work trying to duplicate our work by non biological means..."
  Should be "non-biological".
Page 38: "They will be able to do this, because with their new material and compact configuration {...} the balloons will be strong enough..."
  One comma misplaced, another missing. Should be "this because, with their new material and compact configuration {...}, the balloons will be strong enough"
Page 77: "Figure 4.2 Trajectory Options to Mars: (A) Hohmann transfer orbit; (B) Fact Conjunction mission; (C) Opposition mission."
  Should be "Fast Conjunction".
Page 84: "...but because their orbits will loop well out beyond Mars actually would take the crew to take longer to get home..."
  Should be "their orbits which will loop well out beyond Mars".
Page 97: "...between its midcourse correction, Mars orbit propulsion maneuver system, and landing propellant..."
  Should be "Mars orbit maneuver propulsion system".
Page 114: "One of leading dragons barring the path to Mars..."
  Should be "One of the leading dragons".
Page 132: "...millions of tons of Martian surface material has been blasted off the surface of the Red Planet..."
  Should be "have been".
Page 140: "We have found some on Earth, called bacterial stromatelites, that date back 3.7 billion years..."
  Should be "stromatolites".
Page 200: "Pure iron, very strong, will be left in mold, while the carbon monoxide will be released..."
  Should be "in the mold".
Page 220: "...tightly bound oxides such as silicon dioxide (SiO2), ferrous oxide (Fe2O3), Magnesium oxide (MgO), and alumina oxide (Al2O3)..."
  Should be "aluminum oxide".
Page 257: "...and How does the answer play out in our model?"
  Should be "how".
Page 284: "For this reason their staffs are top heavy with layer after layer of useless, high-priced 'matrix managers' (who manage nothing), 'marketeers (who do no marketing), and 'planners' (whose plans are never used), and whose sole apparent function is to add to company overhead."
  Add hyphen to "top-heavy"; remove highlighted "and".
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