{"id":7975,"date":"2026-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:56:25","slug":"7975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/2026-event\/7975\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Direct: Humans to the Red Planet within a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Zubrin holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Rochester; he was a science teacher for the following seven years before becoming an engineer. He earned an MS in Nuclear Engineering, an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a PHD in Nuclear Engineering \u2013 all from the University of Washington. Zubrin has developed a number of concepts for space propulsion and exploration and is the author of over 200 technical and non-technical papers along with several books. He is also President of both the Mars Society and Pioneer Astronautics, a private company that conducts research and development on innovative technologies. The Mars Society is an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by public and private means. The Society was influential in having the U.S. government continue funding several Mars rover missions. Zubrin\u2019s architectural concepts for human exploration- such as \u201cliving off of the land\u201d heavily inspired Andy Weir\u2019s novel and film,\u00a0<em>The Martian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Zubrin<\/strong><br \/>September 29, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5228,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}