A review by merlin_55
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility by Robert Zubrin

4.0

Having read Zubrin's previous two books I was a bit tentative about buying this volume. But it has been significantly updated to reflect the private sector space initiatives of Musk and Bezos. The most compelling point is that the frontier of the New World, and specifically the American West gave birth to liberal Western democracy. Whereas, in contrast, societies with closed frontiers become stale and inward looking. He posits that without a continuously expanding frontier in space, the same fate awaits us all if we remain here on earth.