Robert Zubrin

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.

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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)

Origin

Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Occupation

military flight engineer / engineer / novelist / writer / science fiction writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

University

University of Washington

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Zubrin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504677

Tags

• Colorado
• military flight engineer
• engineer
• novelist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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