Robert Zubrin is the president of Pioneer Astronautics and of the Mars Society.
Robert Zubrin is the president of Pioneer Astronautics and of the Mars Society (www.marssociety.org). An updated edition of his book The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must was recently published by The Free Press. Twitter: @robert_zubrin
A space station in lunar orbit will accomplish nothing. NASA needs to choose a rational goal: Put a base on the Moon now, and put humans on Mars within 8 years.