Mars and Island One

--- victoriatangoman wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Karell
> Ste-Marie"
> wrote:
>
> > What I will keep throwing up in the air is my own
> attempt at common
> > sense, fair?
>
> Fair enough. IMHO, the first thing you should do is
> buy or
> borrow "The High Frontier" by Gerard K. O'Neill and
> "Colonies in
> Space" by T.A. Heppenheimer. They're the big picture
> works that
> explain why Habitats are a better strategy than
> Mars.
>
Both of those are great books, but I always feel it is
best to hear all sides of the argument. So include in
that the Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin and take a
look at the work the Artemis Society is doing about
the moon: http://www.asi.org/adb/ (not sure if there
is a good book out there that flat out pushes the
lunar colonization angle that is equivalent to
O'Niell's and Zubrin's works).