First Landing
Ace, July 2001, 24.95, 272 pp.
ISBN 0441008593
After a year in space, the five-person team on board the Beagle are getting ready to land on Mars. The landing, like everything else that follows, does not go smoothly but it does get the astronauts there in one piece. Within the first few weeks there, they have found a gemstone that is harder than a diamond and microorganisms that prove there is life on the red planet.
The astronauts ar...
