Mars, Inc
Subtitle: the Billionaire's club
By: Ben Bova
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781451639346
Subjects: Exploration of Mars (Planet); High Tech; Investment clubs; FICTION; Fiction; Science Fiction; Roman; General; Exploration; Adventure; Billionaires; Amerikanisches Englisch
Description: "How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and sabotage--and get a rocket full of scientists, engineers, visionaries and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet"--