A Step Beyond

2021. Four years after the first manned mission to Mars ends in tragic failure, a joint U.S.-Russian mission blasts off in two ships, each crew equally determined to set foot

Acknowledgments

vii

The Russian Attempt

1

(21)

The Brick Moon

22

(29)

Queens Gambit Declined

51

(28)

A Solar Flare

79

(23)

Venus

102

(23)

Mars Orbit Injection

125

(27)

Mars

152

(29)

Olympus Mons

181

(26)

Candor Chasma

207

(27)

The Discovery

234

(24)

Dust Storm

258

(29)

The Valley of Death

287

(27)

The Final Challenge

314

(26)

Earth

340

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