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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Astronaut Mark Watney ... NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle has spacesuits mounted on its exterior. Crew members would climb into the suits through back doors in the rover.

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, ...

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 ...

Hollywood and science came together when the upcoming blockbuster film ‘The Martian’ opened in theaters Friday. Set in the near future, the story revolves around astronaut Mark Watney (Matt ...