Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin, a recipient of the National Space Society’s prestigious Robert A. Heinlein Award, has a doctorate in nuclear engineering and masters in aeronautics and was the leader of the “Mars Direct” project at Martin Marietta Aeronautics. He is the current and former president of Pioneer Astronautics, which performs advanced space technology research for NASA and the U.S. military, and is also the president of the Mars Society. For many years he worked as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. Zubrin’s books include How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil and The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must.