Story & Timeline
26 entries in the The Martian compendium.
Ares 3 LaunchSix go up. Five come down. One stays behind.Sandstorm at Acidalia PlanitiaThe sandstorm at Acidalia Planitia is the catastrophic weather event that sets the entire Abandonment of Mark WatneyLeft for dead on a world of red dust.Potato Farming BeginsTurning Martian dirt into dinner, one spud at a time.The Hab ExplosionOne wrong valve, and the Hab becomes a bomb.Pathfinder RecoveryExhuming a ghost to call home.MAV Ascent ModificationA short-hop rocket, jury-rigged into a long-shot rescue.Hermes Resupply and RescueA desperate gamble to bring one man home—and the most audacious space rescue ever attempteAres 4 MAV Intercept3,200 km, one rattle-bucket, every scrap of duct tape he could find — no convoy, no backupWatney's EVA to the MAVOne last walk to ride a rocket home.The Iron Man LaunchOne gutted rocket, one man's last shot at home.Hermes Crew Rescue of WatneyOne final, impossible shot to bring him home.Melissa LewisThe woman who saw a garden in the data and refused to let a man die.Ares IIIA six-month Mars mission that becomes one man's fight to survive on an alien world.Mark WatneyOne botanist, one potato farm, and a very long way home from Mars.Beth JohanssenThe calm engineer who turned a Mars-or-bust crisis into a rescue plan.Mitch HendersonThe man who had to sign the check for a man on Mars.HermesThe ship that carried six to Mars, left one behind, and had to come back for him.Bruce NgThe man who had to say 'yes' when the whole world was screaming 'no.'Chen WuA quiet crewmate whose evacuation from Mars ignites a planet-wide rescue race.Anatoly BelyayevRoscosmos's chief, who chose a shared rescue mission over a geopolitical standoff.Vincent KapoorThe man who had to say 'yes' to the impossible while the world held its breath.Ares IVSix astronauts land on Mars; only five leave when the storm roars in.JPLThe whiteboard where a man on Mars becomes a problem humanity refuses to let go unsolved.Rick MartinezThe steady hands behind the wheel when all of Mars is the road.ESAThe European hand on the wheel of humanity's first crewed Mars program.
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