# Book Review: Are We Ready to Head to Mars? Not So Fast.

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/book-review-are-we-ready-to-head-to-mars-not-so-fast-3/
- Published: 2023-11-21T09:45:02-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image caption: In this artist’s concept of a future Mars mission, two explorers stop to inspect a robotic lander and its small rover. Image credit: NASA / Pat Rawlings, SAIC. Article by Christie Aschwanden. Undark – November 10, 2023. In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s co-founder and president, Robert Zubrin, extolled the virtues of sending humans to Mars to terraform the planet and establish a human colony. The Mars Society’s founding declaration began, “The […] Click here to view original web page at undark.org