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The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...