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Once the transportation is ready, Mars will be a popular destination. According to scenarios worked out by a group of scientists who call themselves the Mars Underground, the first voyagers would be preceded by ferries carrying equipment for setting up a permanent base. Early visitors would face a hostile environment...
After a few decades of familiarization and exploration had established that there was no indigenous Martian life, humans might be ready to undertake the ultimate real estate-development project: the greening of Mars. The first step, according to one recent study, would be to warm the planet by releasing large...
The next task would be to oxygenate Mars' atmosphere and introduce life. The "gardeners" on Mars could import anaerobic organisms -- for example, the blue-green algae that flourished on earth billions of years ago. Other genetically engineered organisms would follow until one day, probably millenniums from now, the new Martians...
But that had been 20 years ago and a quarter-billion kilometers away. The playback came to an end; sound, vision, the scent of unknown flowers and the gentle touch of the wind slowly faded. Suddenly, he was back in this cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100...
Well, he had many friendships -- and one that was much more than that -- on Mars; this was where his future must lie. He was only 102, with decades of active life ahead of him. But some of the crew had loved ones on the Moon; he would have to put...