Matt Damon will be the furthest thing from my mind, I hope. I bought it today, trusting on all of the positive things I read here. PS book is an must read for people reading this forum. Well worth listening to, he has done his homework. There is interview with him the SpaceShow last week. You should probably look up the YouTube talk at Google by the author - he actually made a program to simulate the orbits - remember that the book featured a ship with an ion drive. Don't want to go into specifics - avoiding spoilers and off topic. Very good book, seemed realistic to me except the orbital stuff. Quote from: Chilly on 07:25 pm -"The Martian" by Andy Weir also looks really good, about an astronaut stranded alone on Mars after a dust storm forces his crewmates to bug out back to Earth.īought that last night on the recommendations here. Not a lot of opportunities to build models, except for a Lunar Taxi LEM and a Saturn V that has a M1 engine on the S-II stage. The book is self published, and has several spelling errors and other problems that may not have happened with a real publisher. This was written in 2003, so a bit before SpaceX! NASA is to buy it's rides to their big space station and moonbase from others. A commercial Skylab, and a shuttle program that is totally commercial. There is also a great deal of time spent dealing with commercial space flight. There is a female astronaut, also a geologist. It has a lot more politics in it than Voyage, and there is a the main antagonist is a far left congressman who believes NASA must be stopped and all of their money transferred to welfare programs. So, Nixon decides, let us make them spend more by increasing our own program. The point of departure for this book is a secret CIA memo that shows the Soviets have been spending so much money trying to race us to the moon, they economy is suffering. I'm glad I read it before my brain was poisoned by seeing Mark Watney portrayed by Matt Damon.Īfter reading Stephen Baxter's Voyage again, I wanted another alternate history book of the same type and found Children of Apollo by Mark R. He said the participants need to be like Damon’s Watney character: "Super competent, resourceful and not relying on other people to feel comfortable."ĭownload the FOX 5 Atlanta app for breaking news and weather alerts.General Discussion > Spaceflight Entertainment and Hobbies There could be "incredible freedom" in a "year away from the demands of your normal life."Īttitude is key, said Hadfield, who has a novel "The Apollo Murders" coming out in the fall. "If they have a musical instrument there, you could go into there knowing nothing and come out a concert musician, if you want." "Just think how much you’re going to be able to catch up on Netflix," he said. Past Russian efforts at a pretend Mars mission called Mars 500 didn’t end well partly because the people were too much like everyday people, he said.įor the right person this could be great, said Hadfield, who spent five months in orbit in 2013 at the International Space Station, where he played guitar and sang a cover video of David Bowie’s "Space Oddity." that’s a good thing because it is a better experiment if the participants are more similar to the people who will really go to Mars. Answer (1 of 5): This question can be answered in terms of movie budgets, or estimated fictional costs where Matt Damon has been sent on extended 'business trips'. That shows NASA is looking for people who are close to astronauts, said former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Applicants have to be between 30 and 55, in good physical health with no dietary issues and not prone to motion sickness. The requirements are strict, including a master’s degree in a science, engineering or math field or pilot experience. The application process opened in August and they’re not seeking just anybody. "We are looking at Mars realistic situations." "We want to understand how humans perform in them," said lead scientist Grace Douglas.
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