Mars Direct - in Fiction

In Fiction

• Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.

• Mars Direct forms the basis for the 2000 film Mission to Mars.

• In the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish", a short clip shows the first man on Mars with a spacecraft that resembles the Mars Habitat Unit.

• In the West Wing episode "The Warfare of Genghis Khan", a NASA staffer describes Mars Direct to the skeptical White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and is able to convince him of its merit.

• Both Mars Direct and Mars for Less concepts figure prominently in Brian Enke's 2004 novel, Shadows of Medusa.

• A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.

• A Mars Direct scheme is used in Robert M. Blevins' 2005 novel The 13th Day of Christmas.