Volume 44, Number 14 · September 25, 1997
Some Like It Hot
By Timothy Ferris
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
by Robert Zubrin
Free Press, 328 pp., $25.00
Imagined Worlds: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
by Freeman Dyson
Harvard University Press, 216 pp., $22.00
In the sky at dusk some midsummer evenings one could see two lights that evoked distinct lines of thought about the American space program and its uncertain future—Mars, rust-red and unblinking, suspended low in the southwest, and the Mir space station, a white dot that could be seen gliding overhead before disappearing into Earth's shadow.
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