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To: Simmy2.5; RightWhale

> Still, the dream of sending a man on Mars (and no matter what plan, I assume Mr. Zubrin will support it)

An interesting update from Nasawatch.com:

"24 August 2004: "New Moon Rising" Banned from Mars Society Convention
Editor's note: The Mars Society held its convention in Chicago this past week. Among the exhibitors present was the publisher of the book Frank Sietzen and I wrote "New Moon Rising". Our publisher was only allowed to have a booth at the convention if they did not sell our book. This specific condition was set personally by Mars Society President Bob Zubrin."

Apparently Zubrin does not want people (at least not the people attending his conference) knowing much about Project Constellation. Why in hell would a man pushing for Manned Mars be opposed to a book about Manned Mars?

(This is a rhetorical question in this case)

Pity... wish I'd known this earlier... would've made a killing selling "I went to the Mars Society Conference, and all I got was this T-shirt" t-shirts with pictures of the book cover...


13 posted on 08/25/2004 6:27:12 AM PDT by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam

That is interesting and I think it is a little sad.


14 posted on 08/25/2004 9:19:41 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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