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Friends of Scientifica found a crazy solution. His plan was for farming the one packet of potato he carried as a botanist for scientific experiments! He readied the plain inside the hub – his and co-astronauts excreta kept, is mixed with sand and facilitate bacteria to grow and to make manure. Hydrazine compound in the unused balance rocket fuel is passed over iridium catalyst to break it to Nitrogen and Hydrogen. This Hydrogen is burned in oxygen to form to create water. His effort to do this dangerous process, though initially was a failure, then succeeded. From 400 potato plants he gets a good harvest. Watney spent his lonely an uncertain life eased with fun. He passed his days engaging himself by tuning with Commander Lewis’s disco music and sharing his ideas in front of the hub’s camera as if to friend. Still, on certain nights, the image of lonely Watney looking at outside dusty darkness and the lightning flashing across the sky, really trouble our minds. No human being must have ever faced such a loneliness. In earth, without knowing all these, NASA is observing official morning and conducting Watney’s after death ceremonies. The passengers of spacecraft Hermes is on their long journey way back to earth immersed in deep sorrow of Watney’s death. Unexpectedly, the Mars mission director Vincent Cooper, observes signs that Watney is alive. The world literally turned into an angst. NASA is under tremendous pressure. The curse of leaving an astronaut alive back in mars. An emergency supply mission is charted to deliver food and other necessities mars to rescue Watney. However fast be it done, it will take minimum nine months. NASA chief Tedi thinks that by the time the mission reaches Watney will starve to death. Vincent cooper reasons, without the information that somebody is trying to rescue him from 50 April, 2016