Colonizing Mars The Human Mission to the Red Planet by group of authors..The road map to the Red Planet, written by a veritable whose who of the world's top experts, including NASA senior scientists science directorates and astronauts who walked on the moon. This book explains how it can be done, what it would be like, and how the mission can be paid for. Get ready for the greatest adventure in the history of humanity: Onward to Mars!

CONTENTS
1. Human Mars Exploration: The Time Is Now
Robert Zubrin 4

2. Acceptable Risk: The Human Mission to Mars
Jack Stuster 14

3. To Boldly Go: A One-Way Human Mission to Mars
Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies 20

4. Our Destiny – A Space Faring Civilization?
Edgar D. Mitchell and Robert Staretz 28

5. Apollo on Mars: Geologists Must Explore the Red Planet
Harrison H. Schmitt 36

6. Humans on Mars: Why Mars? Why Humans?
Joel S. Levine, James B. Garvin, and David W. Beaty 50

7. Martian Biological Investigations and the Search for Life.
Joel S. Levine, James B. Garvin, and Peter T. Doran 56

8. Mars, Human Factors and Behavioral Health
Albert A. Harrison and Edna R. Fiedler 69

9. Psychosocial Adaptation to a Mars Mission
Edna R. Fiedler and Albert A Harrison 77

10. Stress & the Psychology & Culture of Crew & Astronaut
Sheryl L. Bishop 86

11. Mars: Anticipating the Next Great Exploration.
Psychology, Culture and Camaraderie, Peter Suedfeld 99

12. Expedition to Mars: Psychological, Interpersonal, and
Psychiatric Issues.
Nick Kanas

13. Sex On Mars: Pregnancy, Fetal Development, and Sex In Outer Space
Rhawn Joseph 114

14. Effects of Long-Duration Spaceflight, Microgravity,
and Radiation on the Neuromuscular, Sensorimotor, and
Skeletal Systems
R. Dana Carpenter, Thomas F. Lang, Susan A. Bloomfield,
Jacob J. Bloomberg, Stefan Judex, Joyce H. Keyak,
Ronald J. Midura, Paola Divieti Pajevic, and Jordan M. Spatz 135

15. The Integration of Planetary Protection Requirements
and Medical Support on a Mission to Mars
John D. Rummel, Margaret S. Race,
Catharine A. Conley and David R. Liskowsky 152

16. Infection Risk of a Human Mission to Mars
Mihai G. Netea, Frank L. van de Veerdonk,
Marc Strous, and Jos W.M. van der Meer 160

17. Location, Location, Location! Lava Caves on Mars for Habitat, Resources, and the Search for Life
Penelope J. Boston 169

18. The Mars Homestead For An Early Mars Scientific Settlement
Bruce Mackenzie1, Georgi Petrov, Bart Leahy, and Anthony Blair 189

19. Marketing Mars: Financing the Human Mission to Mars
and the Colonization of the Red Planet
R. Joseph