Before Mars Emma Newman
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Little Black Book, Variable Produces BEFORE MARS, a Digital Short Film for the National Geographic Channel. This is the backstory of Hana and Joon Seung, characters in the series "MARS" on Nat Geo. Experts are working hard to get humans on the surface of Mars in a matter of decades, which begs the question: why? Credit: Foster + Partners is part of a consortium set up by the European Space Agency to explore the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations. In 2018 author Emma Newman will return to the captivating Planetfall universe with Before Mars, a standalone dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who starts to doubt her own memories and sanity. Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who slowly starts to doubt her own memories and sanity. News 5 toured NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Tuesday to get a glimpse of the testing sections of the Space Launch System -- the biggest rocket ever built, NASA says -- before it begins a journey of swampy proportions. Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who starts to have doubts about everything around her. Chris Hadfield recently explained how humanity should create a Moon basebefore attempting to colonize Mars. That piece was “Before Mars.” I trust if you're reading this, and you even remotely follow what we do at Nat Geo, you have likely heard of this project, or perhaps even watched it (link above this paragraph if you haven't seen it – please watch first as there are spoilers below). Available on demand and online, the 30-minute prequel to MARS is the inspirational story that fuels the Martian dream.