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Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great
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Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Paperback - 1991

by Wilford, John Noble

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Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer John Noble Wilford traverses the vast physical and cognitive distances between earth and Mars, offering an informed vision of the future of Martian exploration. MARS BECKONS is a fascinating synthesis of myth, history, politics, and high technology, written with the momentum of a grand adventure story.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 11/08/1991, Page 0

About the author

John Noble Wilford is a science correspondent for The New York Times. His professional career began in 1956 at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a general assignment reporter and a medical reporter. In 1962, he joined Time to work as a contributing science editor, then moved in 1965 to The New York Times to be a science reporter. In 1969 he wrote the New York Times front-page article about man's first walk on the moon. His was the only byline on the front page, beneath the headline "Men Walk On Moon" and under the subheading "A Powdery Surface is Closely Explored." In 2008 Wilford received the University of Tennessee's Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award. He lives in New York.