EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Mars contains most all of the resources necessary to sustain life, with a surface area equal to the land surface area of Earth and a climate that does not preclude habitation by humans. In the long term, the exploration and settlement of Mars promises to bring mankind toward another era of prosperity. Mars offers a second opportunity, not simply to consume and waste, but to design living communities based on the premise of conservation of resources. Implementing affordable technology and a management infrastructure that facilitates development and growth of the Mars program as a continous objective is the theme of the Case for Mars VI.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-In Memoriam.

-Foreword.

-1. Building Support for Low-Cost Missions to Mars.

-The Case for Mars VI: The Heritage and Legacy of the Viking Project.
-The Significance of the Martian Frontier.
-Breaking the Mars Cost Barrier: New Management Approaches Are Demanded.
-Selling a Mars Mission: Why is the Price so High?
-Infrastructure for Commercially Backed Mars Exploration.
-Wait Watcher's Guide to Space Exploration.
-Building Support for the Manned Exploration of Mars: Lessons From Theory and Research on Persuasion and Attitude Change.
-The Synergy Project: An International Mission to Mars Based on a University/Government/Industry Synergy.
-From Geo.S to Mars: Teaching the Mars Kids.
-Teaching the Martians.
-Mars Exploration of Mars: An Update.
-A Cost and Risk Analysis of Human Exploration Missions to Mars.
-Marketing Mars: Winning Public Support and Funding.

-2. Essential Technology and Proposed Infrastructure.

-Human Exploration of Mars: The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team.
-Affordable Space Transportation Strategies for Human Exploration of Mars.
-Reliability Issues for Spacecraft Electronic Design.
-Software Cost Reduction for Mars Missions.
-Space Nuclear Power: Costly Policy Problems in the Exploration of Mars.
-Logistical Requirements for Mars Extra-Vehicular Activities.
-Mars One Way to Stay: Economics, Commercialization, Public Policy and Technology Needs Required for Mission Success.
-One-Way to Mars.
-Reducing the Cost of Earth Launch.
-The Goddard Mission: A Profile.

-3. Reducing the Cost of Precursor Missions: Science and Engineering.

-Low Cost Mars Missions.
-Dual Use of Defense Technology: What to do With Surplus Superpower Defense Assets or How to Conduct a Cost Effective Dynamic Mars Expedition Mission Simulation in the Near Term.
-A Comparison of Alternative Methods for the Mars Sample Return Mission.
-Martian Oases? Feasibility of Orbital Thermal Emission Detection.
-High-Power Mars Subsurface Radar.
-An Inflatable Module for Use on Mars.
-Ares Explore: A Study of Human Mars Exploration Alternatives Using In Situ Propellant Production and Current Technology.
-Prospects for Using CO2/Metal Propellants in Mars Missions.
-Does Automation and Robotics Lower Costs?
-The Use of the International Space Station (ISS) in Preparaing for the Human Exploration of Mars.
-Mars Surface Mission - Being There.
-The Utility of Geothermal Energy on Mars.
-The Mars Surface Robot Marsokhod.
-Major Advances in ISRU Technologies for Low-Cost Mars Missions.
-Mars Mission: Couples Only.

-4. Designing a Habitable Planet.

-Mars - Past, Present and Future - Terraforming: Chairman's Introduction.
-Terraforming Mars: A Review of Ongoing Research.
-Terraforming: An Ethical Perspective.
-Mars Today.
-The Formation of Martian Ecosystems: Rationale and Directions for Future Research.
-Biology and the Planetary Engineering of Mars.
-Surplus Weapons-Grade Plutonium: A Resource for Exploring and Terraforming Mars.
-Selecting Pioneer Microorganisms for Mars.
-Discussion of a Mars Mission Tort-Reform, Antitrust, Tax, and Insurance Act of the USA, and United Nations Convention.
-The Economics of Mars Colonization.
-A Summary of Current Planetary Engineering Proposals.

-5. Working Group Reports.

-Introduction to Working Group Reports.
-Programmatics and Philosophy: Groundless.
-Why There Are No Show Stoppers for Going to Mars.
-Education and Public Policy Working Group: Goals and Recommendations.
-Non-Governmental Approach to Human Presence on Mars; or How Are We Gonna Pay for This?

-Appendix.

-Index.