The Case for Mars (64 page)

SSTOs.
See
Single-stage-to-orbit vehicles (SSTOs)

Staehle, Robert,
243

Stafford, Thomas,
66

Steel,
185
,
199
–201

Stoker, Carol,
70
,
72
,
73

“Straight Arrow Approach, The,”
53

STRs.
See
Solar thermal rockets (STRs)

STV.
See
Space Transfer Vehicle (STV) program

Sulfides,
311

Sulfur,
220

Superoxides,
33

Surface mobility,
141
–147

Synthesis Group report,
66

Syrtis Major,
25

Telerobotics,
164
–166

Temperature of Mars,
27
–28,
57
,
129
,
136
,
175
,
249
–263,
271
–272

Terraforming Mars,
70
,
71
,
218
,
238
,
247
–272

calculations,
251
–260

hydrosphere activation,
268

methods of accomplishing global warming,
263
–268

oxygenating,
269
–270

rate of outgassing of atmosphere from regolith,
260
–262

Terror
(ship),
17

Tether-generated artificial gravity schemes,
61
–62,
123
–126

Tharsis region,
30
,
159
,
209

Thermal conduction,
260
–261

Thermonuclear fusion reactors,
223
,
224
,
245
–246

Thomas-Keprta, Kathie,
308
,
312
–314

Thompson, Al,
52

Tilapia fish,
199

Timekeeping, on Mars,
162
–164,
166

Titan IV,
40
,
41
,
43

TMI. See Trans-Mars injection (TMI)

Trans-Mars injection (TMI),
96
,
97

Transmission electron microscope,
312

Triangle trade,
230
–231

Truly, Richard,
274

Truth, Sojourner,
37

Tumlinson, Rick,
293

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
295
–296

University of Colorado,
70
–72

Uranus,
25

U.S. Geological Survey,
139

U.S./Russian humans-to-Mars program,
279
–282,
291
,
292

Utopia Planitia,
32

Vali, Hojatollah,
314

Valles Marineris,
29
,
139
–140

Vanadium,
200

Vapor pressure,
252
–254

Venus,
52
,
70
,
80
,
82
,
95
,
97
,
140
,
162
,
266

Viking
program,
13
,
19
–20,
30
–36,
39
,
52
,
70
,
87
,
99
,
130
–132,
140
,
148
,
157
,
170
,
174
,
184
,
188
,
190
,
196
,
198
,
207
,
208
,
268

Volcanic action,
159
,
209
–210

von Braun, Wernher,
47
,
66
,
102
,
292

Voyager
program,
70
,
190

V-2 rocket engines,
60

Walker, Charles,
292

Walker, Robert,
274

War of the Worlds
(Wells),
173

Water,
5
,
10
,
11
,
30
,
35
,
61
,
91
–92,
133
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
159
,
185
–193,
220
,
224
–225, 249,
266

Weaver, David,
67
,
68
,
154

Webb, Walter Prescott,
303
–304

Welch, Steve,
71
,
72

Wells, H. G.,
173

Wilcockson, Bill,
52
,
63

Williams, John,
193

Wilson, Roger,
72

Wind power,
207
–208,
211
,
221

Worden, Pete,
106
,
274

World Space Foundation,
243

Wright, Ian,
322

X-33,
106

Zare, Richard,
308
,
313
,
314
,
318
,
323

Zeolite,
193
,
261

Zero gravity,
10
,
13
,
81
,
83
,
95
,
113
,
120
–126

Table of Contents

Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke

Preface

1 Mars Direct

2 From Kepler to the Space Age

3 Finding a Plan

4 Getting There

5 Killing the Dragons, Avoiding the Sirens

6 Exploring Mars

7 Building the Base on Mars

8 The Colonization of Mars

9 Terrraforming Mars

10 The View from Earth

Epilogue: The Significance of the Martian Frontier

Special Addendum

Glossary

Notes

References

Index