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‘Mom, look at the color of the sand.’
‘I know. Adjust your helmet, son. It is not yet habitable for us.’ said a Mother adjusting the helmet of the Mars Suit while they were deboarding the Space Shuttle after One month of travel. It was 2030 and a space genius lifted humankind from the cradle of humanity to the red planet.
The pioneer made it possible with constructive government and innovative policies. His genius attempt was regarded as a child tantrum in his initial years, however after multiple failures and setbacks, he lifted them all from the earth to a new home. Everybody including his critics, the naysayers and the doubters.
After billions of rupees and millions of human hours invested, humanity found its way to Mars, the last hope of the Baby Boomers and a new home for Gen A.
The scientist with constant innovations made it possible for humanity to thrive and prosper on MARS albeit with some limitations. Life was adjusting itself and trying to boom out of the Mars Suit that was needed for roaming around Mars. The Mars atmosphere with 95% CO2 was not made for our human cells.
After a decade, Anna made an astonishing discovery that set humanity free from the confinement of the Mars Suit. Anna came up with nano-carriers that formed a shield around the subject and converted the excess carbon dioxide of the Mars atmosphere to breathable oxygen and maintain the surrounding temperature for a human body to survive. The nano-carriers removed the requirement of the suit to walk on the red soil of Mars.
Anna was given the Musk Award, the most prestigious award on Mars named after the genius who uplifted humanity to a new level.
Anna had a son named Max, a Gen Y. He was a quantum physicist. Max dreamed of travelling to a new habitable planet.
Mars was a good option compared to Earth but it was not an easy planet to live on. Years of research indicated an existence of a planet similar to the Earth in another galaxy. Mars failed to level down its CO2 to a breathable level. Oxygen was not much and that forced the majority of scientists to discover another option.
