Buzz Aldrin Mission to Mars Signed Hardcover Book National Geographic Mars

by Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David

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First edition · Signed

Mission to Mars - My Vision for Space Exploration by Buzz Aldrin. Written with Leonard David, foreword by Andrew Aldrin. Signed by Buzz Aldrin on the title page in blue ink. Published by the National Geographic Society in 2013, with no other dates present; presumed first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket, xiv + 258 pages with many black-and-white illustrations throughout. Orange-red gilt on spine, 16 pages of color illustrations between pages 146 and 147. The following is an adaptation of an online article from BBC Sky at Night Magazine: "The second man on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin, has grand ideas of how to make sure human exploration of Mars creates a more permanent foothold than the Apollo programme created on the lunar surface. He is constantly refining the ideas he first set out in his 2013 book Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, wants to play a pivotal role in the push to the Red Planet, and has spent the last three decades telling anyone who’ll listen about his plans to go to Mars, and why it’s so important we do so. 'We’ve been stuck in low-Earth orbit for too long and I believe that we need to break this malaise,' says Aldrin, who walked on the Moon in 1969 as part of Apollo 11. 'I do believe we can establish permanent habitation on Mars by 2039, and I have a plan to achieve it.' If that date seems rather specific, there’s a good reason for it: it would be the 70th anniversary of Apollo 11’s Moon landing." In good condition. Some yellowing of the pages,

• Publisher: National Geographic
• Condition: Very Good

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