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Author:

Duggins, Pat.

Title:

Trailblazing Mars : NASA's next giant leap / Pat Duggins.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mars (Planet)--Exploration.
Space flight to Mars.
Mars probes.
United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- Mariner sets sail -- The space race to Mars -- Reheating the leftovers of Apollo -- Viking, NASA's "gold bug" -- The twenty-year gap -- The shuttle's long good-bye -- Pioneers past and present -- The Moon, one baby step -- The new "right stuff" -- Lessons from Biosphere 2 -- Plowing the "Back 40" on Mars -- Should NASA go it alone? -- Getting there, living there -- Why go at all? -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

081303518X (alk. paper)
9780813035185 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2010015139

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)