Race to Mars

Describes the dramatic chain of events that will ultimately send human beings to Mars. The story begins in ancient times when the red planet was associated with war and violence, then leads us to the American astronomer Percival Lowell. He trained his telescope on our neighboring red planet and detected surface marks that he and other observers believed were canals. Proceed to the present day, describing NASA's series of unmanned landings, then continuing into the future, dramatizing events in the course of the projected Martian mission.