Communications Failure in The Martian Realistic?

October 2015 Science Snack

October 6, 2015

Hello, and a special welcome to those of you joined my monthly mailing list/newsletter at the book signing with Buzz Aldrin at JSC on October 2. I call it Science Snacks because I discuss one cool science fact or news item (the “snack”) in each issue that I think other writers and readers of science fact & fiction will enjoy.

October-2015-Oct2-JSCBuzzAldrin17web

“I knew it was hopeless, but I tried firing up the communications array. No signal, of course. The primary satellite dish had broken off