Full Description
In this gritty and scientifically accurate science fiction adventure from
New York Times bestselling author Ben Bova and NASA space scientist Les
Johnson, the first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a
meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it! Too far from Earth to
simply turn around and return home, the eight-person crew must ride their
crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth,
powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident
as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The whole
human space flight program hangs in the balance. And if the astronauts
can't nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become either
the first Martian colonists — or the first humans to perish on another
planet!
