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this will come as quite a shock to my crewmates and the NASA into the entire world but I'm still alive surprise in the new sci-fi movie the Martian Matt Damon plays Mark Watney an astronaut stranded on Mars and forced to figure out how to live in the harsh conditions with little food and water this movie is really meant to take place in the very very near future so we're right on the cusp of being able to do a lot of the things that that we do in the movie while NASA continues to explore Mars with unmanned Rovers plans are already being made for human exploration of the red planet in the 2030s one of the biggest challenges involved supplies NASA successfully landed the one-ton Curiosity rover three years ago but needs to deliver much heavier payloads for a human mission what we're going to need down on the surface to support humans is probably 40 tons worth of equipment or how we're going to use the thin atmosphere of Mars to help slow down and then eventually lay stuff down on the ground as nicely as we did curiosity curiosity's much-celebrated landing helped inspire what dr. Greene calls the mars generation adding to the mars mania NASA's recent announcement that liquid water exists on Mars boosting hopes of finding microbial life there next NASA will be working to pinpoint which parts of the planet astronauts should first explorer we're going to find out where on Mars we would want to set humans where they would work where they would extract materials how they would survive in that environment with years to go before humans step foot on Mars movies such as the Martian could help keep the public's interest in space exploration that value is not lost on NASA which opened its doors to acclaim director Ridley Scott to do research for the movie in los angeles ashley escada cnet.com for CBS News still alive you