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Did you know... that The Mars Project, written by
Wernher von Braun in 1948, has been regarded as "the most influential book" on manned missions to Mars (artist's conception pictured)?
To me it's clear that this is a non-fiction book. The background is that in 1948 von Braun wrote a science fiction novel about a manned mission to Mars. It was only published in 2006 as Project Mars: A Technical Tale, but the novel's appendix, detailed engineering diagrams and calculations upon which he based the novel, was published in 1952 as Das Marsprojekt (translated to English in 1953 as The Mars Project). It's a proposed technical specification for a manned expedition to Mars, not a work of fiction.
This NASA document calls The Mars Project an essay (p.16). What do others think? —
Bruce1eetalk06:28, 16 January 2015 (UTC)reply
That download is von Braun's novel, Project Mars: A Technical Tale, and the Publisher's Introduction on page 5 is about the novel. This article is about The Mars Project, which is not the same thing. Read what I said above :) —
Bruce1eetalk07:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes Project Mars: A Technical Tale is von Braun's attempt at a science fiction story to fire the public's interest. Compared to other science fiction , at the time, it was poor, no US publisher would touch it. The technical appendix was so extraordinary that it caught attention in Germany was reworked and published there in 1952, then published in the USA as The Mars Project, 1953.
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