| Publication No.: | AEE-27 | | Author(s): | Ahmed K. Noor, Robert Zubrin and Douglas Stanley | | Title: | A Step Closer to Mars | | Publication Info: | Mechanical Engineering, Vol 128, No. 11, Nov 2006, pp. 24-30 | Abstract:
The investment in space exploration over the last four decades has helped make life on Earth in many ways safer, and in all ways richer. Space age technology has made possible satellite telecommunications and the Global Positioning System, and has even improved our weather forecasting.
Activities focused on space will continue to accelerate advances in robotics, power technologies, and life support systems. They will enhance our creativity in finding new solutions for Earth-related problems, and could have significant impact on society and the economy in unforeseeable ways
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