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Martian Movie imagines a future Mars mission.

Journey To Mars

Journey To Mars

Learn about our real Journey To Mars  and Asteroid as well.

The film “The Martian” takes the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and extends it into fiction set in the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface. NASA has collaborated on this film with 20th Century Fox Entertainment, providing guidance on production design and technical consultants

So whats happening in real life? NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s. NASA will send a robotic mission to capture and redirect an asteroid to orbit the moon. Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will explore the asteroid in the 2020s, returning to Earth with samples...

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