![]() He hobbles back to the Hab (the astronauts' base) and tends to his injury, a puncture wound in his stomach. Roughly a day later, however, Watney returns to consciousness, alone on Mars. The Ares 3 crew attempts to maintain morale for the many-months-long trip back to Earth, while NASA does what it can to control fallout, on Earth, from the supposed death of Watney on the Red Planet. Commander Lewis, in charge of the mission, does so with a heavy heart, but believes it to be the proper protocol. The crew leaves Watney on Mars, thinking him to be dead after the incident. During this, Watney is struck with a shard of metal-a piece of the crew's own antenna. After a couple days on Mars, a giant dust storm disrupts the astronauts' mission and forces an abort. Astronaut Mark Watney is a botanist and mechanical engineer on the American Ares 3 mission to Mars, following two successful Ares missions that have been met first with earthly excitement, then mostly indifference. The Martian begins in the near (and undated) future.
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