The Weirdest Thing: Two Weeks From Landing
Fourteen days from today, the hatch will open and the six of us will rejoin the world. In some (obvious) ways, we never left. In many ways, we’ll be aliens …
Category: missing Earth
Moments of Silence, Broken
Last night over dinner we argued about soil. Not argued so much as batted ideas around the way that scientists do. “That’s not soil – that’s bedrock.” One of us …
Ask Martians Anything: Send a Message to “Space”
When you boldly go where no one has gone before, there are a few things you can count on. Number one: you forgot something. Perhaps it was your toothbrush, your …
A Window Into Mars
When we finally get to Mars, where will we live? That seems like a pretty obvious question. We’ve all seen the movies, read the books. In the future, we live …