But you don’t need to travel 20 trillion miles, like the crew of the Ark One (from SYFY's new show The Ark), or even 121 million miles to Mars, like Mark Watney, in order for space to come at ...

As astronaut Mark Watney, actor Matt Damon spent the bulk of his screen time in an orange, white and gray “surface suit” that artfully blended movie magic and high-tech engineering.

The story follows Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars. Matt Damon (who plays Watney) and other actors in the movie adaptation had to spend a lot of time dressed up in their suits ...

The upcoming sci-fi film "The Martian" features many real-life technologies being developed to help put boots on the Red Planet, but the sleek spacesuits showcased in the movie were pretty much ...

18 space suits from science fiction, from worst to best. ... and Mark Watney’s space suit is probably one of the most important environments in the story. After being stranded on Mars, ...

SCIENCE FICTION: Mark Watney spends most of his time on Mars in what he calls "the Hab," — short for Mars Lander habitat — which shields him from harmful radiation, contains breathable air ...

To close the gap, Mark makes the risky play of stabbing the palm of his own spacesuit, allowing the escaping air to propel him through space in a manner that Mark compares to an Iron Man suit in ...

Mark Watney, eat your heart out. By Sarah Fecht. Published Dec 5, 2015 2:25 AM EST. ... to inspect the local geology without having to don a space suit. And speaking of space suits, ...

During the EVA, a piece of flying debris strikes astronaut Mark Watney and he disappears from view. Telemetry from his suit, being monitored inside the spacecraft, indicates that his suit pressure ...

Matt Damon as Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars who figures out a way to turn his urine into rocket fuel. Twentieth Century Fox The film's overlap with NASA's current goals is undeniable.

Andy Weir's bestselling novel unfolds as a lonely space procedural. Astronaut Mark Watney, with nobody else to talk to, spends an abundance of pages on log entries that walk the reader through how ...