Characters
22 entries in the The Martian compendium.
Mark WatneyThe botanist who turned Martian dirt into a potato farm and 'worked the problem' to survivMelissa LewisShe made the call. She never stopped fighting.Rick MartinezThe pilot who helped bring his crewmate home.Beth JohanssenThe Ares 3 computer specialist who helps execute the rescue.Chris BeckThe doctor who bet everything on a dead man.Alex VogelThe Ares 3 astrochemist who helped bring Mark Watney home.Mitch HendersonThe flight director who risked his career to save a crew.Venkat KapoorThe man who made the call to leave — and then fought to bring him back.Annie MontroseNASA's media maestro who wields words like scalpels.Teddy SandersThe man who had to sign Watney's death warrant—then tear it up.Mindy ParkThe first to see hope on Mars.Rich PurnellThe astrodynamicist who bent gravity to save a life.Bruce NgThe engineer who said 'Yes' to the impossible.Saturn VThe giant that hurled humanity toward the Red Planet.JPL DirectorThe calm hand steering the rescue from Earth.NASA AdministratorThe ultimate decider for humanity's boldest rescue—and the one who signs the checks that mSantiagoThe quiet engineer who helped save Mark Watney.ReyA boarding-school adventure on Mars that introduced Heinlein's elder Martians.Guo MingThe engineer who turned a probe into a lifeline.Vogel's WifeThe quiet gravity that keeps an astronaut tethered to Earth.Lewis's DaughterThe unseen reason her mother fights to return—and the one person she can't afford to fail.Beck's WifeThe unseen anchor of a hero's heart.
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