Experts say we must explore space

I've written before about the need to explore space. That need remains, and now I add more fuel to the fire by referring to you the following list (compiled by author and space advocate Sylvia Engdahl) of books (and a video) by noted scientists and researchers.

Pick up one (or more) of them on your next trip to the bookstore. Give it a read and report your impressions to me. Let me know if your view has been changed or remains as it was before the read.

• The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth by William E. Burrows


• The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space: Apogee Books Space Series 12 (Apogee Books Space Series) by Gerard K. O'Neill


• The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin


• Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization by Robert Zubrin


• Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space by Harrison H. Schmitt


• Return to the Moon (Apogee Books Space Series) by Rick N. Tumlinson


• Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon's Resources: Apogee Books Space Series 43 (Apogee Books Space Series) by Dennis Wingo


• Mining The Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets (Helix Book) by John S. Lewis


• The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage


• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan


• RealSpace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet by Paul Levinson


• The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, Second Edition (Library of Flight Series) by Frank White


• Spacefaring: The Human Dimension by Albert A. Harrison


• Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space (Apogee Books Space Series) by PhD, Bob Krone


• Disturbing The Universe (Sloan Foundation Science Series) by Freeman J. Dyson


• Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth by William K. Hartmann


• Gaia Selene - Saving the Earth by Colonizing the Moon DVD video


• The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Engdahl


• Journey Between Worlds by Sylvia Louise Engdahl


• The high road by Ben Bova


• The Space Enterprise by Harry G. Stine


• Doomsday has been cancelled by J. Peter Vajk


• Space Colonies (A Coevolution book) by Stewart Brand


• The fertile stars by Brian O'Leary


• Spaceships of the mind by Nigel Calder