Progress on Mars Writing

Told you I'd be gone for a while. It's a long way to Mars and back!

So far I have a mass of notes (or should that be a mess? Yes, it should.)  Topics include:

·         Private space corporations

·         Asteroid mining

·         Mars remote sensing research

·         Astrobiology

·         Which universities do postgraduate research in astronautics?

·         Mars One

·         The large body of Mars fiction, from 1880 to the present

Almost nothing of the story is written beyond note form. Here's a snippet of what could be an interlude in the form of Facebook-type messages:

 

RichK31  3hrs . Richmond, Virginia

great day!! at last broadband to my door again! it been long time. now I can play WoW. 12 months offline whew!

doktahoo 3hrs . Cape Town

Had it last week. still slow tho

Mleonor 2hrs . New York

Anybody heard news from MarsOne yet?

Mick Major 2hrs .

They say a webcast or tweets 1pm EST but even on broadcast TV no news for months

Mleonor 2hrs . New York

No news good news? Mars One management has gone pretty quiet the last year or two of the crisis

Mleonor 55mins . New York

Everybody – what were you doing when M1 first landed? Memories?

Abdul Basit 48mins . Dar Assalaam

missed it in hospital sick just my bad luck

RickK31 33mins . Richmond, Viriginia

I watched it on my ol' iPhone I was trekking across Colorado terrible signal out there just me an the coyotes was that really 5years ago

Mleonor 31mins . New York

5 yrs 4months 13days 17hours. We threw a big party that day. The apartment was crazy packed. Ran out of pizza. Totally awesome when they stepped onto the surface. We screamed ourselves hoarse and didn't hear their historic words. The day Paulo died the next year I cried solid 48 hours.

Mleonor 13mins . New York

If M1 didnt make it if theres no signal or theyre gone I dont know what ill do