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My dear husband has faithfully answered questions involving the constantly changing distances from Earth to Mars and why exactly Mars’s low atmospheric pressure would kill me even if the lack of oxygen or cold temperatures didn’t happen to get me first. However, any errors in representing the good information he provided are my errors, and mine alone.

To members of the various research teams at NASA Ames who showed up for the public event on the breezy evening of August 5, 2012 and answered my myriad questions, I am especially indebted. I have a geek-crush on all of you. Especially after the heat shield and parachute deployment operated in so very, wonderfully, nominal a fashion.

Author’s Note

Would you like to see humans on Mars? Or journey there yourself? You many find the following organizations of interest:

www.planetary.org

www.nss.org

www.spacefrontier.org

www.marssociety.org

www.nasa.gov

www.spacex.com

Table of Contents

DEFYING MARS

HAUNTED

I’LL STAND BY YOU

THAT LIFE IS OVER

GENERALLY A MECHANIC

LIKE A SPIDER

A PLANETARY TREASURE

TERRAN FEVER

A PREDILECTION

LOOKS LIKE DIRT

BUNCH OF BLAMED FOOLS

VULNERABLE

A SNEEZING FIT

HE WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME

A TINY O

INCALCULABLE DEBT

TRYING VERY HARD

WHERE YOU SEE FENCES

SAND IN A RAW WOUND

IT HURTS OR IT SCARES YOU OR IT’S INCONVENIENT

ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE

AIN’T NO SKILLED POLITICIAN

IDEALLY SUITED

DEFYING MARS

FOR HARPREET

NEVER GET AHEAD

THE PROSPECT OF DEATH

WATER-WEIGHT

FATE OF A LONE GIRL

THE PERFECT ECOSYSTEM

BETTER THAN THAT

SEAT OF YOUR PANTS

YET HERE WE BE

CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH

IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE

NO CLAIM

AN INFINITY OF MOMENTS

FOUND SOMETHING UNEXPECTED

NO MORE

AMONG THE WRECKAGE

BETTER SUITED

PROMISE

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