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Robert Zubrin
Timeline: Space Race Didn't End

Portrait of Robert Zubrin

January 3, 1999 – January 3,2005

Predecessor: Paul Allen
Successor: Barrack Obama

Mayor-Tycho City
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1999

Born: April 19,1952
Political Party: Democrat
Profession: Aerospace Engineering


Robert Zubrin (born April 19, 1952) was fourth Secretary-General of the United Communities on the Moon and is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy the manned exploration and colonization of Mars. He was the driving force behind Mars Direct an early, private colonizarion effort of Mars that produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of the mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan was also subsequently adopted by NASA as their "design reference mission," and he would participate in the development of the updated NERVA rocket and travel to Mars before settling on the Moon.

Early years

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Mars Mission

Like so many others in the late seventies, Zubrin got an opportunity to use his expertise in the service of the growing ranks of NASA and the Space Command. Zubrin started working on NASA's nuclear rocket and improving the effencies of the rocket to increase the burn time in the hope to speed up the craft and reduce the travel time. He was working with Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz, who would later design and build the first Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). However, both man would be selected to enter the Mars program and would start training in early 1980.

United Communities

Upon returning from Mars

Deep space

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