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Ares 3 Mission Crew lands on Mars. The Ares 3 Mission Crew starts evacuating because of an intense dust storm. In the chaos, Watney is pierced by an antenna. Unable to find him in the mess, the rest of the crew leave assuming Watney was dead. Watney’s injury doesn’t kill him but he has no way to contact Earth and he doesn’t have enough food and water to last for a long enough time. He starts growing potatoes and burning hydrazine for water. NASA finally finds out he’s alive through satellite images and start to look for ways to rescue him. However, NASA decides to keep the news from the rest of the crew so they don’t get distracted. Meanwhile, Watney plans to go to the landing site of the next mission, Ares 4. He starts preparing the rover for the …show more content…

This gives him the ability to contact NASA. Mitch Henderson, the Ares 3 flight director, convinces Teddy Sanders, the NASA administrator to tell the rest of the crew about Watney’s survival. The crew feels happy and guilty at the same time. Due to Watney’s repeated use of the airlock, the canvas in the Hab tears. This decompresses the Hab, almost kills Watney, and kills his plants. Luckily, Watney is able to repair the Hab. NASA makes a probe to send Watney supplies but the rocket disintegrates after liftoff. In a second attempt to send Watney supplies, NASA makes a deal with the China National Space Administration. However, there is no time to build one with a soft-landing system so they are faced with the idea of building a probe whose cargo can survive crashing into Mars’ surface at 300 meters per second. Luckily, Rich Purnell, an astrodynamicist, comes up with a plan to get the Hermes, the spacecraft the rest of the Ares 3 crew is aboard, to Mars to save Watney. However Sanders rejects Purnell’s plan because it could risk the lives of the Ares 3 crew. Although Sanders vetoed the plan, Henderson secretly tells the crew and they all

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