Happy #MarsMonday everybody! America’s space agency is designing and building capabilities to send humans farther into the solar system than ever before, including to an asteroid and #Mars. NASA is developing the most advanced rocket and spacecraft ever designed. The #Orion spacecraft will carry four #astronauts to missions beyond the moon, launched from #Florida aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) -- an advanced heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. And it isn’t only NASA with our eyes on Mars… “The Martian” premiering this Friday in the U.S. merges the fictional and factual narratives about Mars, building upon the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and moving it forward into the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface to explore. Although the action takes place 20 years in the future, NASA is already developing many of the technologies that appear i...