The crew of the Ares III on their 18-sol of 31-sol expedition was in a mission on the mars faced an unexpectedly strong storm which forced them to leave the planet for their safety, but during the evacuation, astronaut ‘’Mark Watney’’ is struck and …show more content…
lost in the storm; and the crew lost all indications or signs of life from his suit due to rupture in his space suit made by an antenna entered his abdomen that made them thought he was dead. So, the captain gave the order to leave without him assumed his death.
After the massive storm, Mark awaked because of lowering the level of oxygen and realized that he was left behind with a shortage of supplies and without any communication with the earth, and then he also realized that it would be four years till the next mission arrives to bring him back, so he begun a video diary to state that he's alive and started to think about the food that would keep him alive as he only had food enough for one year.
Then, Watney determined that he has to grow three years worth of food on a planet where nothing grows.
Therefore, he started planting a farm with potato using human waste from the crew as fertilizer, and water produced by burning hydrazine to make water, and while doing so someone in NASA noticed a movement on the planet and all realized he was alive and they left him behind by mistake. And he knew a way using a code via computer to get in touch with NASA then negotiations started about how getting him back as fast as they could.
Watney's story spread all over the world and he even had a photo taken for publishing, and got a message from the president as well as from his crew that did not knew he was
alive.
Unfortunately, Things went worse with Mark while NASA was working on how to resupply him, an explosion happened blowing out a good portion of his crops and he figured he had not enough food till he got other supplies.
On that time, astrodynamicist showed up with a plan that would get the Hermes crew to turn around and go on an extended space trip to resupply Mark with food and to get him back but his plan did not get approval, which made NASA administrator Henderson secretly sent the plan to the crew. Despite knowing that they could get in trouble for defying orders, captain Melissa Lewis decided they must go back for Mark.