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Beyond Earth

How to go — and why: visions of a human future in which we not only endure but prevail

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Space Stations •
Moon •
Mars •
Settlement •
NASA •
Astronomy •
Space Policy •
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Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Robert Zubrin

The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen

Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.

Robert Zubrin

Review | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Rand Simberg

There Is a Planet B

In a new book, the pioneer who figured out how to get to Mars imagines how to stay there.

Rand Simberg

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Robert Zubrin
  • Steven Benner
  • Jan Špaček

How to Search for Life on Mars

First, stop refusing to look.

Robert Zubrin, Steven Benner, Jan Špaček

Essay | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Robert Zubrin

The Mars Decision

How to show that American democracy can still do great things

Robert Zubrin

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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Robert Zubrin

NASA’s Next 50 Years

A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.

Robert Zubrin

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Rand Simberg

The Return of the Space Visionaries

How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up

From: The Space Renaissance

Rand Simberg

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Micah Meadowcroft

Lost on Mars

Why space colonization will disappoint you

From: The Space Renaissance

Micah Meadowcroft

Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • James Poulos

For the Love of Mars

Why settling the Red Planet can lift us from our antihuman malaise

James Poulos

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Online Exclusive | October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016

  • Robert Zubrin

Colonizing Mars

A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Robert Zubrin

Essay | Spring 2005

Spring 2005

  • Robert Zubrin

Getting Space Exploration Right

Robert Zubrin

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