The Martian Race

Gregory Benford

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After a failed NASA mission to Mars, the US government abandons all plans for further manned voyages. Billionaire businessman John Axelrod takes up the challenge to complete the first private mission to the planet. Then comes news that a Chinese-European group are launching a rival mission.
Published
1999
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Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Foundation’s Fear, Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), Timescape,…