Mars Direct - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.
  • Mars Direct forms the basis for the 2000 film Mission to Mars.
  • In the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish", a short clip shows the first man on Mars with a spacecraft that resembles the Mars Habitat Unit.
  • In the West Wing episode "The Warfare of Genghis Khan", a NASA staffer describes Mars Direct to the skeptical White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and is able to convince him of its merit.
  • Both Mars Direct and Mars for Less concepts figure prominently in Brian Enke's 2004 novel, Shadows of Medusa.
  • A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.
  • A Mars Direct scheme is used in Robert M. Blevins' 2005 novel The 13th Day of Christmas.

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