The Chinese National Space Administration offers NASA the Taiyang Shen, a secret space shuttle that could carry a cargo to Mars. Unfortunately, the launcher with the supply probe explodes immediately after takeoff. When a fault in the Hab lock causes an explosive decompression, the Watney plants die and Sanders orders to accelerate the works of the supply mission by skipping the safety inspections. Watney is upset when he is told that the crew has not been informed of his survival, and Sanders authorizes Henderson to inform them.Ĭonsidering that growing potatoes would allow him to survive until the sun 900, Henderson and Bruce Ng, Director of JPL, prepare a plan to send a space probe to Mars with supplies for Watney, with enough food until the arrival of the Ares IV.
NASA sends you instructions to modify the rover and that, through the Pathfinder, they can communicate by text. Using the camera of the descent module, establishes a rudimentary communication with the JPL team. Watney travels with the rover to retrieve the Pathfinder probe, with which communications were lost in 1997. Despite the objections of Mitch Henderson, Director of Flight of the Hermes, the director of NASA Teddy Sanders decides not to inform the crew, believing that it would distract them from their mission. When reviewing satellite photos of Mars, following instructions from Vincent Kapoor, Director of the Mission, the satellite specialist Mindy Park realizes that Watney has survived. He also cleans the solar panels of the Hab and starts modifying the only functional rover to make the long trip across Mars. After calculating that he has food for only 300 soles (approximately 309 Earth days), Watney, mechanical engineer and botanist, improvises a field of cultivation, inside the Hab with Martian soil fertilized with vacuum-packed crew excrement, water made by extracting hydrogen from hydrazine, a surplus rocket fuel, oxidizing it through combustion, and potatoes reserved for a Thanksgiving meal. He is aware that his only chance of rescue is the arrival of the Ares IV mission to the Schiaparelli crater, 3 200 kilometers away, within four years, and that he will need his scientific knowledge to survive. An antenna piece is removed from the abdomen, which had punctured his suit and destroyed his biomonitor, which gave erroneous readings of his vital signs, and started a daily video. With the remaining crew members in danger, Major Melissa Lewis gives the take-off command of the VAM (Mars Ascension Vehicle) without him.Īfter the storm, Watney is awakened by the low oxygen alarm of his suit and returns to the “Hab” (Habitat), the base of operations of the crew on Mars. During the evacuation, astronaut Mark Watney is hit by an antenna and lost in the storm the telemetry of his suit indicated decompression and loss of vital signs before turning off. A dust storm forces them to abandon the mission and return to the ship in orbit “Hermes”. The crew of the mission to Mars Ares III is exploring Acidalia Planitia on the Martian day or sun 18 of a mission of 31 soles. The film is based on the novel by Andy Weir published in 2011 Martian (The Martian). Its protagonists are Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Donald Glover, Mackenzie Davis and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The Martian ( Mars in Spain, 5 Rescue Mission in Latin America ) is a film American of science fiction of 2015 directed by Ridley Scott and written by Drew Goddard.