He frequently contributes to the website as their “Space Insider Columnist” and is the coauthor of Buzz Aldrin’s Mission to Mars.

Leonard David is an award-winning space journalist who has been reporting on space activities for over 50 years. 27 kids media and educational materials a touring NG Live speakers series and ongoing Mars coverage on. MARS will be the November cover story of National Geographic Magazine will be featured in a National Geographic Kids book, MARS: The Red Planet,” on sale Sept. *National Geographic will extend the MARS experience in an unprecedented cross-platform experience with a six-part documentary series on the National Geographic Channel in November, digital companion prequel “ Before MARS” that will launch prior to premiere, a digital virtual-reality experience at and a MARS Experience installation in New York this October. In MARS, David investigates the red planet as never before, introducing Mars not merely as backdrop to swashbuckling science fiction but as they very real setting of humanity’s next home. The ethics of altering the ecosystem of yet another planet is no small question. Immediately upon landing, we will need to make changes to Mars if we are to survive.Astronaut Scott Kelly recently spent a year in space and grew over an inch! The toll of a two-year journey through space, let alone life on a new planet, will havedrastic physical effects on every human being living under those conditions.Unlike astronauts who often report awe and insight when viewing Earth from space, people on Mars may not see the earth in their night sky at all. Researchers posit the “Earth Out of View” phenomenon as one example of potentialpsychological effects.There’s a whole lot we don’t yet know and MARS takes those crucial questions head-on: Earth is far: two years away and that’s when the window of return is open.Mars has the largest volcanoes and deepest canyons in the known solar system, and anyone on the surface of the planet is exposed to lethal levels of radiation.A parachute the size of the Rose Bowl will be necessary to land a crew on Mars from the spacecraft in which they travel.Backed by extensive research and written by award-wining journalist Leonard David-who has covered space for 50 years and was co-author of Mission to Mars with Buzz Aldrin-the book is part of a major National Geographic Mars initiative* this fall, including a documentary in partnership with Ron Howard, whose foreword opens the book. 25 ISBN 978-1-4262-1758-6 304 pages ) considers the imminent settlement of humans on Mars. MARS: Our Future on the Red Planet (National Geographic Books on sale Oct. Right now, plans are being put in place and procedures honed to get humans to Mars.

Mars by Leonard David