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Robert Zubrin

ロバート・ズブリン　/　ろばーと・ずぶりん

American military flight engineer

April 9, 1952 (age 74)　・　Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Colorado
military flight engineer
engineer
novelist

My Take

What I admire about Zubrin is that he refused to treat Mars as a fantasy. As an aerospace engineer he did the hard math, then turned around and argued we could get there now using fuel made on the planet itself. That blend of rigorous engineering and almost evangelical conviction is rare. His more hawkish talk about space superiority gives me pause, but I read it as the same restless certainty that humanity belongs out there. Add the science fiction novels and you have a man determined to make others feel his vision, not just hear it. His stubborn optimism is genuinely contagious to me.

Overview

Robert Zubrin (; born April 9, 1952) is an American aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars. He is also an advocate for U.S. space superiority, writing that "in the 21st century, victory on land, sea or in the air will go to the power that controls space" and that "if we desire peace on Earth, we need to prepare for war in space." He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, we…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Robert Zubrin
Name (Japanese): ロバート・ズブリン
Reading: ろばーと・ずぶりん
Born: April 9, 1952 (age 74)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Dragon
Origin: Lakewood, Colorado, United States
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Occupation: military flight engineer / engineer / novelist / writer / science fiction writer

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University: University of Washington

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