Why ‘The Martian’ Won’t Get Us Any Closer to the Red Planet
If the space community seeks to turn the Matt Damon film into a commercial for sending people to Mars, we will fail miserably.
If the space community seeks to turn the Matt Damon film into a commercial for sending people to Mars, we will fail miserably.
At the end of June, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, in the course of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, agreed to establish “regular bilateral government consultations on civil space cooperation.” Neither the purpose of these consultations nor the topics they will cover was immediately clear.