Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Type I: Completing Global Civilization
Chapter One: On the Threshold of the Universe
Chapter Two: The Age of Dinosaurs
Chapter Three: The New Space Race
Chapter Four: Doing Business on Orbit

Type II: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
Chapter Five: The View from the Moon
Chapter Six: Mars: The New World
Chapter Seven: Asteroids for Good and Evil
Chapter Eight: Settling the Outer Solar System

Type III: Entering Galactic Civilization
Chapter Nine: The Challenge of Interstellar Travel
Chapter Ten: Extraordinary Engineering
Chapter Eleven: Meeting ET
Chapter Twelve: North to the Stars

Appendix: Founding Declarations of the Mars Society
Glossary
References
Index

About the Author

Robert Zubrin is an internationally renowned astronautical engineer and the acclaimed author of The Case for Mars. NASA recently adapted his humans-to-Mars mission plan. A former senior engineer at Lockheed Martin, Zubrin is the founder of Pioneer Astronautics, a successful space exploration and development firm. He lives in Indian Hills, Colorado.