Mars Base One

Martin Turner is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Leicester and eaches undergraduate courses on Rocket Engines, and Launcher and Space Vehicle Dynamics. He is also Principal Investigator for the EPIC instrument on ESA's XMM-Newton orbital X-Ray observatory, and Chairman of the ESA XEUS Science Advisory group which advises ESA on future orbiting X-ray obsrvatories. He is member of the Suzaku Science Working Group for the Japanese Space Agency--Suzaku is a recently launched X-ray observatory, and a co-investigator on the NASA SWIFT Mission. He is a member of several PPARC review committees, including one as Chairman.

Martin Turner has built instruments for a significant number of space observatories, EXOSAT (ESA), GINGA (Japan) XMM Newton (ESA), and has worked on many others, including Spectrum-X for the Russian Space Agency, COS-B for ESA, and ASCA for the Japanese space agency.

The author has published some 150 papers on X-ray astronomy and space instrumentation. He has published two books with PRAXIS: Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion, 2nd Edition, October 2004, and Expedition Mars, November 2003. Martin Turner is therefore ideally suited to write this forward looking book based round his experience with space missions and his teaching and writing about rocket propulsion and the expedition to Mars.