History WMG / TheMartian

This is the beginning of the US/Chinese joint space exploration that allows humanity to move away from Earth That Was and into the 'Verse.

[[WMG: The film is canon to the TV series ''Series/TheExpanse''.]]
Considering that ''The Martian'' by Andy Weir was adopted as a prequel and canon by the authors of ''The Expanse'' novel series (they even including a ship called The Mark Watney), logic would deduce that the film adaptation of ''The Martian'' is a prequel to the TV series.

* This would make it kinda similar to ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

Considering that ''The Martian'' by Andy Weir was adopted as a prequel and canon by the authors of ''The Expanse'' novel series (they even including a ship called The Mark Watney, a Martian ship), logic would deduce that the film adaptation of ''The Martian'' is a prequel to the TV series.

Considering that ''The Martian'' by Andy Weir was adopted as a prequel and canon by the authors of ''The Expanse'' novel series (even including a ship called The Mark Watney, a Martian ship), logic would deduce that the film adaptation of ''The Martian'' is a prequel to the TV series.

Considering that ''The Martian'' by Andy Weir was adopted as a prequel and canon by the authors of ''The Expanse'' novel series, logic would deduce that the film adaptation of ''The Martian'' is a prequel to the TV series.

''As far as Kapoor was aware, Russia also offered assistance to the rescue operation... well, two out of three biggest Russian governments. The Second Socialist Republic in Moscow stated it's their duty as Ultravisionaries to aid the operation to rescue Watney, and offered free use of all three rusty Souyz spacecraft they still had. General Shoigu's neo-Putinist National Reclamation Government in St. Petersburg offered the same with their two Soyuzes and an Orel, but for a hefty sum of money, all of which they were probably going to spend on American [=PMCs=] and weapons to help the Civil War effort. As for the Holy Imperial Government under the mad regent Zhirinovsky, they were predictably silent: those bozos were infamous for believing space does not exist and the firmament is a crystal dome. However, Kapoor was sure that the director of NASA will prefer cooperation with the Chinese: their space program was, at least, not so fatally ravaged with civil war and lack of financing for many years. ''

''As far as Kapoor was aware, Russia also offered assistance to the rescue operation... well, two out of three biggest Russian governments. The Second Socialist Republic in Moscow stated it's their duty as Ultravisionaries to aid the operation to rescue Watney, and offered free use of all three rusty Souyz spacecraft they still had. General Shoigu's neo-Putinist National Reclamation Government in St. Petersburg offered the same with their two Soyuzes and an Orel, but for a hefty sum of money, all of which they were probably going to spend on American PMCs and weapons to help the Civil War effort. As for the Holy Imperial Government under the mad regent Zhirinovsky, they were predictably silent: those bozos were infamous for believing space does not exist and the firmament is a crystal dome. However, Kapoor was sure that the director of NASA will prefer cooperation with the Chinese: their space program was, at least, not so fatally ravaged with civil war and lack of financing for many years. ''

In RealLife, the second space program in the world has always been the Russian one (well, since the day it stopped being the ''first'' space program in the world), and post-Soviet Russians cooperated with NASA a lot. Here in the book and movie, it's suddenly China. What happened to Russia? Was the Russian space program terminated indefinitely due to political or economical reasons? What's going on in Russia so severe they had to abandon space entirely? Another balkanization like the fall of the Union? A Second Civil War? Post-Putin warlords in the vein of VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope?

In RealLife, the second space program in the world has always been the Russian one (well, since the day it stopped being the ''first'' space program in the world), and post-Soviet Russians cooperated with NASA a lot. Here in the book and movie, it's suddenly China. What happened to Russia? Was the Russian space program terminated indefinitely due to political or economical reasons? What's going on in Russia so severe they had to abandon space entirely? Another balkanization like the fall of the Union? A Second Civil War? Post-Putin warlords in the vein of TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope?

[[WMG: Where is Russia?]]

In RealLife, the second space program in the world has always been the Russian one (well, since the day it stopped being the ''first'' space program in the world), and post-Soviet Russians cooperated with NASA a lot. Here in the book and movie, it's suddenly China. What happened to Russia? Was the Russian space program terminated indefinitely due to political or economical reasons? What's going on in Russia so severe they had to abandon space entirely? Another balkanization like the fall of the Union? A Second Civil War?

There's just no mention in that story of Watney's Mars adventure. ''The Martian'' happens before the events of ''Artemis'' but has nothing to do with the plot there.

Mark's survival on Mars is effectively the ultimate proof of concept: even with equipment not designed for extended operations, he proved that long-term habitation on Mars with indigenously grown foods is not only practical, but has already been successfully done. The data from Ares 3 and Mark's insights will advance the long-term habitation program beyond the engineers' wildest dreams. The only thing that can stop it now is funding.[[note]]Uh oh.[[/note]]

So that the Ares 5 MAV could be delivered safely.