Yes, The Martian is a great space movie because it depicts events that seem very real while building suspense and peppering everything with snarky remarks. Without spoiling the film for you, we can safely say that the space-related technology and the science used to get us to Mars sound plausible. And it turns out that the NASA actually has a plan for getting humans to Mars to better understand the red planet and potentially learn more details about its past.
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