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In this gritty and scientifically accurate science fiction adventure fromNew York Times bestselling author Ben Bova and NASA space scientist LesJohnson, the first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when ameteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it! Too far from Earth tosimply turn around and return home, the eight-person crew must ride theircrippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth,powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accidentas proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The wholehuman space flight program hangs in the balance. And if the astronautscan't nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become eitherthe first Martian colonists - or the first humans to perish on anotherplanet!