The Mars Society's founding declaration began, 'The time has come for humanity to journey to the planet Mars,' and declared that 'Given the will, we could have our first crews on Mars within a decade.' That was two and a half decades ago.
'After a few years of researching space settlements, we began in secret to refer to ourselves as the 'space bastards' because we found we were more pessimistic than almost everyone in the space-settlement field,' they write. 'We weren't always this way. The data made us do it.'
'Think of this book as the straight-talking homesteader's guide to the rest of the solar system,' they write.
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