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Engineering By Technological Design
The Martian
Basel Hamdan 10C
4/14/16
Mr.Cpeda
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission. There were some challenges that Watney faced like food, and temperature. He solved these problems by the things he was taught and his instinct.
N.A.S.A. sends 6 people out to space with enough food for 50 days. He runs out of food and now solves the problem by finding out exactly how much food he lacks, Watney realizes that he will have to create his own. Luckily, some raw potatoes in the supplies, intended for the crews Thanksgiving, can act as a stopgap measure. Then he gets to work planting, growing and counting again. However, in order to sustain life, Watney needs water. For that, he uses some chemistry. He combines a precise ratio of hydrogen, drawn from rocket fuel, and oxygen to create the necessary water. However everything has a limit and he needs supplies. So N.A.S.A. wants to send a rocket full of supplies and they solve that by. Researchers frantically “do the math” on how soon they can get a supply rocket to Watney. The calculation is intimately tied to time: not just the time to build and test a rocket, but also when best to send it. The changing