The Judgment Call Podcast

• 00:01:36 How Robert’s love for Mars and space got started?
• 00:03:36 Why Robert’s proposal to explore Mars was so different than other ideas? His experience pitching a Mars landing to NASA.
• 00:10:49 How Robert and Elon Musk discovered their joint interest for space exploration?
• 00:14:30 The beauty of Starship and why it can enable the settlement of Mars?
• 00:19:04 What was so interesting about the Orion spacecraft and the Mayflower concept?
• 00:22:57 What are popular appearances of a Mars colonization? When will we have a Mars base?
• 00:26:30 What role will geopolitics play in colonizing Mars?
• 00:28:44 What is the ‘business model’ for extended space exploration?
• 00:37:03 Is the radiation dosage a problem when colonizing Mars?
• 00:39:30 How can we terraform Mars? How long will that take?
• 00:43:08 What are the biggest open issues for colonizing Mars?
• 00:45:33 What sort of ‘political regime’ should rule Mars?

You may watch this episode on Youtube – #75 Robert Zubrin (The Case for colonizing Mars).

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars. He is the author of several books incl. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must and The Case for Space.

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