Special Report: Journey to Mars story
In the year 2005, a cable news network broadcasts the expected landing of a United States manned mission to Mars.
7 total · 3 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a common interest unites | major | The people of the world were united by a pioneering United States manned mission to Mars. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | A cable news network broadcast a manned mission to Mars to billions of people all around the world. |
| journalism | major | A manned mission to Mars was broadcast live on cable news. |
| engaged couple | minor | The astronauts Susan and Charlie, who went on a risky spacewalk together, were engaged to be married. |
| speculative nanotechnology | minor | Captain Slader's body was invaded by "nanotech machines". |
| speculative spaceship | minor | Seven astronauts and a science journalist traveled to Mars on the spacecraft Destiny. |
| unethical business practices | minor | It was revealed that the IRC corporation conspired with extreme right wing European political parties to sabotage a pioneering United States manned mission to Mars. |