The Case for Mars (60 page)

Fontana, Francisco,
24

Forward, Robert,
125

Fossils,
44
,
140
–141

Franklin, Benjamin,
149

Franklin, Sir John,
16
–18

Free-return aborts,
97

Free-return trajectories,
83
–84

French, Jim,
43
,
57
–58

French Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique,
243

Friedman, Louis,
292

Fusion reactors,
223
,
224
,
245
–246

Galileo Galilei,
19
,
21
,
24

Galileo
spacecraft,
190

Garver, Lori,
292

Gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS),
31
–33

Gaubatz, Bill,
106

GCMS.
See
Gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS)

Geologist,
86

Geometry,
22
,
24

Geothermal power,
208
–211

Gibbons, Jack,
323

Gibson, Everett,
308
,
311
–315,
318
,
321

Gingrich, Newt,
282
–283,
291
–293

Gingrich approach,
282
–291

Global warming, artificially induced, ,
263
–268

Goats,
198
,
199

Goddard, Robert,
27

Goldin, Dan,
67
,
275
,
307
,
314
–315,
321
,
323

Gore, Al,
291
,
315

Government sponsorship,
231
–232

Grady, Monica,
322

Greenhouse agriculture,
10
,
195
–199,
222

Greenhouse effect,
140
,
250
,
253
,
254
,
256
–258,
260
,
262
–268

Greigite,
314
,
317

Griffin, Mike,
66
–67

Gypsum,
174
,
188

Habitable real estate,
236
–238

Habitation module,
7
,
8
,
62
–63,
117
–118,
127
,
128

Hall, Asaph,
25

Halley’s comet,
243

Halobacteria,
35

Halocarbons (CFCs),
250
,
263
–266

Hamilton Standard Company,
150
,
151
,
154

Harmony of the World, The
(Kepler),
24

Hawksbee, Francis,
148

Hegel, G.W.F.,
56

Heliocentric theory,
22

Helium-3,
223
,
230
,
245

211;23>

Herschel, William,
25

Hiroshima,
115

Hohmann, W.,
76

Hohmann transfer orbit,
76
,
77
,
79
,
80
,
84
,
95

Hormesis,
114

Horowitz, Norman,
32
–34

Hoyt, Bob,
125

Hudson, Gary,
106

Human factors problem,
113
,
126
–129

Hunter, Max,
106
,
107

Huygens, Christian,
25

Hydrogen,
5
,
60
–61,
148
,
150
,
151
,
154
,
155
,
182
,
184
,
185
,
194
,
200
,
204
,
205
,
220
–221,
224
,
245

Hydrogen/carbon dioxide engine,
145

Hydrogen/oxygen propellant,
102
,
106
,
111
,
143
,
228

Hydrosphere activation,
268

Hyperbolic (departure) velocity,
78
,
110
–112,
234

Idaho National Engineering Lab,
103

Industrial Revolution,
24

In-situ propellant production (MSR-ISPP) plant,
43
–44,
107
,
146
,
148
–156

Interplanetary commerce,
223
–231

Inventions, export of,
225
,
236

Ionosphere,
157
=0011;159

Iron,
184
–185,
199
–200,
225

Iron disulfide,
311

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California,
19
–20,
156
,
163
,
243

J.F.K model,
277
–279,
292

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
278

Johnson Space Center (JSC),
65
,
67
,
68
,
154
,
156

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
,
57

Jupiter,
24
,
225
,
226

Kaplan, David,
154
,
155

Kelly, Kevin,
274

Kennedy, John F.,
55
,
273
–275,
277
–279

Kepler, Johannes,
19
,
22
–24,
242
,
270

Kerosene/oxygen propellant,
107

Kevlar fabric,
177
–178,
195

Labeled Release experiment,
33

Labor shortage,
235
,
236
,
302

Landing site selection,
6
,
9

Launch environment testing,
42

Law of Universal Gravitation,
24

Laws of Planetary Motion (Kepler),
23
,
24

LEO.
See
Low-earth orbit (LEO)

Levin, Gilbert,
33
,
34

Lewis, John,
225
,
226

Lewis and Clark expedition,
6

Lewis Research Center, Cleveland,
103

Life Sciences Company,
151

Life-support system,
7
,
82
,
83
,
91
,
94
,
100
,
131
,
146
,
153

Lindbergh, Charles,
283

Lindstrom, Marilyn,
311

Linne, Diane,
43

Lockheed Martin Corporation,
284

LOFT,
103

LOR.
See
Lunar orbital rendezvous (LOR) plan

Low-earth orbit (LEO),
49
,
53
,
56
,
87
,
88
,
96
,
103
,
105
,
108
,
136
,
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,
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