Acknowledgements

For several centuries it's not been possible for one person to know even a majority of the technical knowledge that's around. Now with the internet and search engines we have begun to feel as if we virtually know almost anything that was ever known by human beings. But that's just not so. Facts you may summon to your screen; wisdom you can only learn through experience, or possibly by listening to wise people a lot and watching how they do what they do. 

Here are most of the sources I used while researching New World Rising. I've learned some technical background, but also I've picked up that there are people out there who hope for a better, fairer, saner and more peaceful world - whether this world or another far-off planet. I have forgotten a few sources, because I didn't start recording them until later. And after all my careful reading if there are still errors in the stories, then they are mine alone.

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Books
Non-Fiction:
The Case For Mars by Robert Zubrin
Endurance by Scott Kelly
An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth  by Chris Hadfield
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Fiction:
Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Martian by Andy Weir

Papers:
I have skimmed other papers, but these two caught my attention.
Jacob Haqq-Misra: The Transformative Value of Liberating Mars
Sara Bruhns and Jacob Haqq-Misra: A Pragmatic Approach to Sovereignty on Mars


Online
Mars Society forums for a wealth of background and discussion of everything Martian: http://newmars.com/forums/
NASA: https://www.nasa.gov for current ISS research, Apollo archives, astronaut training, robotic explorers and much more
spaceflight101.com for Falcon 9 countdown and launch profile 
space.stackexchange.com for answering many, many technical questions

Details of Russian space program hardware and procedures:  http://www.russianspaceweb.com
Hohmann transfer orbit, free return trajectories:  http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Smars3.htm http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/virtual-tour-iss/

The following two URLs were given by user 'Void' on the Mars Society forums, on the subject of ballistic capture strategies:

https://www.space.com/30749-the-martian-faster-way-to-mars.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-way-to-reach-mars-safely-anytime-and-on-the-cheap/

Wikipedia - for anything that I couldn't find anywhere else

Solar System delta-V 'subway map': http://i.imgur.com/AAGJvD1.png

Images
Many images used alongside the text are from NASA sites. These are copyright of NASA. NASA wants everyone to know that they don't endorse or sponsor my stories. And isn't NASA wonderful for releasing all those images and all that information to the public?



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