What's the deal here

Hi Everyone,

This is our first post on Mars Critical. It is beginning as a side project that spurred as I became more interested in the Mars Direct plan proposed by Dr. Robert Zubrin. For one, I believe this is a great program/mission that could really get us there. But rather than follow him blindly and root for the "good guys" or the "under dog", I decided that critically evaluating it was the best course of action. My fellow geoscientists are divided on the idea of manned Mars missions (many of the detractors are people whom I greatly respect).

Therefore, I decided to catalog my investigation into Mars Direct with this blog.

It begins with this: a book by Dr. Robert Zubrin - "The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must" which I encountered as I researched the plan from this segment the IEEE did on Why or Why Not Mars.


Care to catch up with me and evaluate what's up?

image courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin