Mars to Stay will take a special kind of person. Instead of the traditional pilot/scientist/engineer, Martian homesteaders will be selected more for their personalities—flexible, inventive and determined in the face of unpredictability. In short, survivors. The Mars Artists Community has adopted Mars to Stay as their primary policy initiative. During a 2009 public hearing of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee at which Dr. Robert Zubrin presented a summary of the arguments in his book "The Case for Mars", dozens of placards reading "Mars Direct Cowards Return to the Moon" were placed throughout the Carnegie Institute. The passionate uproar among space exploration
Stowaway to Mars a sequel. Stowaway to Mars Stowaway to Mars is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham. It was first published in 1936 as "Planet Plane" (Newnes Limited, London), then serialised in "The Passing Show" as "Stowaway to Mars" and again in 1937 in "Modern Wonder" magazine as "The Space Machine". The novel was written under one of Wyndham's early pen names, John Beynon. It was published by Coronet Books in 1972 as ""Stowaway to Mars" by John Wyndham". . Reviewer Groff Conklin described the first American edition as "an interesting adventure story." The title novella of the collection "Sleepers of