Habitable Planets For Man is a work by Stephen Dole, first edition published by Blaisdell Publishing Company, A division of Ginn and Company, copyright 1964 by The RAND Corporation. Originally 158 pages, it was republished in a posthumous second edition in 2007, as Planets for Man.[1]
The revised edition, 174 pages, contains a detailed scientific study on the nature of worlds that may support life in the universe, the probability of their existence, and ways of finding them.[2] [3] It includes assessments of 14 stars within 22 light years with a relatively high probability of having habitable planets (a collective probability of 43%).[4] [5] Writing in a Scientific American blog in 2011, Caleb Scharf called it "extraordinarily detailed and prescient".
. Stephen H. Dole . Stephen Dole . Habitable Planets for Man . 2nd . New York . American Elsevier . 1970 .