In the fourth decade of the twenty-first century, humans have been to Mars twice, but neither expedition successfully returned. Now, with worldwide interest in manned Mars exploration on the wane, a third expedition has made it by eking out...
The author has recently been traveling back and forth from his home in Ohio to Pasadena, California, where he was working as a scientist on the Mars Pathfinder Mission. Now he sends his unusual astronaut on a dangerous journey into the heart of...