A far-out dream? Author Brian O'Leary, a former astronaut, believes it can be a reality if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. cooperate in space exploration and set goals now for a 1998-1999 mission. In fact, plans have already begun for sending people to Mars. Since the Soviets are clearly interested in Mars, a joint mission would make political, economic, and scientific sense. But a bewildering variety of mission approaches are emerging. In Mars 1999, Brian O'Leary outlines his vision for an exciting approach to a join Mars ...
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A far-out dream? Author Brian O'Leary, a former astronaut, believes it can be a reality if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. cooperate in space exploration and set goals now for a 1998-1999 mission. In fact, plans have already begun for sending people to Mars. Since the Soviets are clearly interested in Mars, a joint mission would make political, economic, and scientific sense. But a bewildering variety of mission approaches are emerging. In Mars 1999, Brian O'Leary outlines his vision for an exciting approach to a join Mars mission. In a letter included in this book, O'Leary urges the President to give high priority to a Mars voyage. This first in a series of missions would enable us not only to pay for missions but also to fuel a rapidly growing infrastructure on the Moon and on Mars by 2005.
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Very good in Very good jacket. 160 pages. Illustrations. Figures. Appendix. Glossary. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Alan Shawn Feinstein. Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940-July 28, 2011) was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was part of NASA Astronaut Group 6, a group of scientist-astronauts chosen with the intention of training for the Apollo Applications Program. During his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, O'Leary published several scientific papers on the atmosphere of Mars. O'Leary's Ph.D. thesis in 1967 was on the Martian surface. Upon finishing his Ph.D., O'Leary was chosen for a possible Human mission to Mars that NASA was planning at the time. O'Leary was the only planetary scientist-astronaut in NASA Astronaut Corps during the Apollo program. In April 1968, O'Leary left the astronaut program. Carl Sagan invited him to Cornell University in 1968, where he was a research associate and assistant professor of astronomy. Suggests an approach to a joint U.S. -Soviet manned mission to Mars, discusses the goals of such a mission, and describes the obstacles that must be overcome. Brian O'Leary was among NASA's first class of scientist-astronauts chosen in 1967. He joined specifically hoping to be assigned to a future Mars program. His astronaut class was assigned to the Apollo Applications Program (which was later rolled into Skylab). O'Leary quit the astronaut corps just a year later in disillusion, after it became apparent to him that a manned Mars program was not a priority for US lawmakers. Mars 1999 was O'Leary's late-1980s proposal for a joint US-Soviet manned Mars program, which predates a similar proposal by Michael Collins (Mission to Mars). The proposal itself is reasonable enough on the surface. He could have made a credible proposal for a program of future exploration that was inclusive and broad, but instead he made it too much about himself.
