ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM 'REACH FOR MARS!'

Introduction
Science or Fiction
Ever since humans dropped out of the trees and started walking around on two legs,
they have always looked up at night and gazed at the stars in wonder. Sitting at their
fires outside their caves, as large creatures blundered around them in the dark, or eons
later sitting at their campfires after riding the range all day herding and driving large
creatures, who blundered around him in the dark, they would look up and gaze at the
stars in wonder.
They saw groups of stars that they thought made shapes and gave them names. They
saw planets among the stars and gave them names. They used them to explain
previously unexplainable events on planet Earth. They used them to navigate their way
around our planet, and they even used them to predict our future (for better or worse).
They invented telescopes so they could look at them more closely, which they made
larger and larger so they could look at them even more closely. Today they fire
telescopes into space so they can look at them really closely.
As humanity progressed, a new breed of humans evolved: men and women who
dreamed of flying to the stars and wrote stories about their dreams, which we call
science fiction—Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and the list goes
on.
Their stories have enthralled and inspired generations of young children and teenagers
to dream of flying to the stars themselves. Some grew up to follow that dream and
became scientists specializing in astrophysics and rocket propulsion technology to try to
make that dream come true.
The writers posed the question, “What if we could?”
The scientists developed the technology, So we could!
All of the technology described in this novel to fly my astronauts to Mars, keep them
alive while they’re there, and fly them back home again exists and is well known to
NASA scientists. Most of it has been tested and proven, and the rest is in the process of
being proven by NASA scientists, the Mars Society, and the National Space Society,
among others.
If the major governments of the world cut back on the funds they pour into developing
weapons of mass destruction and used those funds to explore and terraform Mars into
a livable environment for man, surely that would be a better future for mankind.


P.S. I have flown to a planet among those stars, and I never came back!- Drew Hunt.A.D. 2018.

AN EXCERPT FROM THE NOVEL- REACH FOR MARS.

WE WILL NOT BLAST-OFF QUIETLY INTO THE COLD DARKNESS OF SPACE AND WIND UP DEAD.
WE WILL FIGHT ON TO BUILD A PLANET TO LIVE AND THRIVE UPON INSTEAD!
                     
                                                                                                    DREW HUNT. A.D. 2015.