Oct. 9, 2002

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Zubrin Visits NC State to Make the Case for Mars Exploration

What: "Dr. Robert Zubrin, one of the world's most passionate and forceful advocates for human exploration of Mars, will present three lectures at North Carolina State University. His lectures include a step-by step explanation of how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within 10 years. Zubrin will also outline ways to build bases and settlements on Mars, produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources, and alter the planet's atmosphere to pave the way for sustainable life. Zubrin is a former senior engineer with Lockheed Martin and the founder of Pioneer Astronautics, a space exploration and research firm. He is the author of "The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must," "Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization" and "First Landing." He is also the president of the International Mars Society and recently returned from managing the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Canada's Devon Island.

Who: Presented by NC State's University Scholars Program, the N.C. Space Grant Consortium and the N.C. Space Initiative.

When: Dr. Zubrin will lecture on Monday, Oct. 28 and Tuesday, Oct. 29
from 2:45 to 4 p.m. in the Campus Cinema of the Witherspoon Student
Center as part of the fall 2002 Scholars Forum Lectures Series. He will
also speak on Monday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the McKimmon Center at an
event hosted by the N.C. Space Grant Consortium.

Where: Witherspoon Student Center and McKimmon Center

Cost: All three lectures are free and open to the public.

Contact: Dr. Chris Brown, 919/513-2457

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