Robert Zubrin
Contributing Editor
Robert Zubrin is a New Atlantis contributing editor, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and the president of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace engineering R&D firm. He also leads the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering space exploration. For many years, he worked as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. He holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering, and has nine U.S. patents granted or pending. In addition, he is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, and Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, American Enterprise, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has appeared on major media including CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.
His most recent book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, was published in 2007 and excerpted in The New Atlantis here. He discussed his book in a lecture at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in November 2007; for information about that lecture or to watch the video, click here. The book's official homepage is EnergyVictory.net. In connection with his writings on energy policy, Mr. Zubrin occasionally contributes to the "Set America Free" blog.
Mr. Zubrin's next book, How to Live on Mars, will be published by Three Rivers Books in October 2008. He can be reached at zubrin@thenewatlantis.com.
