What we get instead, though, is about 65% Damon and 35% the NASA team at home trying to find a way to get him back.
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NASA is also designing an instrument as part of the Mars Oxygen ISRY Experiment (MOXIE) that will convert carbon dioxide from Mars into pure oxygen and carbon monoxide.
Besides, even if fast winds happen on the Red Planet, the fact of the matter is that, what with the orb’s atmosphere being far less dense than that of Earth, they can’t cause much damage.
“Once every three Mars years (about five-and-a-half Earth years), on average, normal storms grow into planet-encircling dust storms, and we usually call those “global dust storms” to distinguish them”, Smith noted in a statement. We know thanks to the Twitter account of American astronaut Scott Kelly who tweeted a photo of the worldwide Space Station crew watching their copy of The Martian.
“NASA is now developing and flight testing HIADs – a new class of relatively lightweight deployable aeroshells that could safely deliver more than 22 tonnes to the surface of Mars”, said Steve Gaddis, Game Changing Development Programme (GCD) manager at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Astronaut’s Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are now embarking on such a journey, and this weekend the pair were joined by their fellow astronauts for a serious space bonus as the worldwide Space Station hosted one of its famous movie nights.
NASA says preparations for a manned mission to the Red Planet are proceeding as planned, with humans expected to set foot on Mars in the 2030s.
A report from Los Angeles Times said that NASA director of planetary science Jim Green believed Scott’s latest project “was true to the science, technology and human cooperation necessary “to overcome major challenges” in space”. Turns out NASA thinks The Martian is the ideal way to kick the national conversation about a manned mission to Mars in the butt.
The next step is deep space, where NASA plans to send a solar-electric powered robotic spacecraft to capture a near-Earth asteroid.
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However, it can be stated that the astronauts do get daily entertainment regardless, in the form of stunning views and spectacular events witnessed from far above our planet that are just outside their window. “I have no doubt that we can accomplish what we have set our minds to do”.
