THE NEW WORLD

When world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society Robert Zubrin published his classic book "The Case for Mars" (translated into nearly a dozen languages) a quarter century ago, setting foot on the Red Planet seemed like a fantasy. Today, manned exploration is certain, and, as Zubrin affirms in THE NEW WORLD, so too is colonization. From the astronautical engineer venerated by both NASA and today's space entrepreneurs, here is what we will achieve on Marsand how.

SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are building fleets of space vehicles to make interplanetary travel as affordable as Old-World passage to America. We will settle on Mars, and with our knowledge of the planet, as analyzed in depth by Dr. Zubrin, we will utilize the resources and tackle the challenges that await us. What will we build? Populous Martian city-states producing air, water, food, power, and more. Zubrin's Martian economy will pay for necessary imports and generate income from varied enterprises, such as real estate saleshomes that are airtight and protect against cosmic space radiation, with fish-farm aquariums positioned overhead, letting in sunlight and blocking cosmic rays while providing fascinating views. Zubrin even predicts the Red Planet customs, social relations, and governmentof the people, by the people, for the people, with inalienable individual rightsthat will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw Earth immigrants. After all, Mars needs talent.
With all of this in place, Zubrin's Red Planet will become a pressure cooker for invention, benefiting humans on Earth, Mars, and beyond. We can create this magnificent future, making life better, less fatalistic. THE NEW WORLD ON MARS proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces and limited resources when, together, we can create planets.

Robert Zubrin is president of the aerospace R&D company Pioneer Astronautics, which performs advanced space research for NASA, the US Air Force, the US Department of Energy, and private companies. He is the founder and president of the Mars Society. Zubrin is also the author of twelve books, including The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, with more than 100,000 copies in print in America alone and now in its 25th Anniversary Edition.