Mars Mission I: Surviving the Kessler Effect - Second Edition

ISBN: 1734224630

Author: Jones, Christopher Lee

Condition: New

The first mission to Mars has landed, only to find out, it has lost allcommunication with ground control and Earth.Someone or something, has destroyed two satellites in low Earth orbit,and the astronauts in the International Space Station have to make an emergencymaneuver to try to protect themselves from the rapidly expanding debrisfields that could destroy the station and kill everyone onboard. In what is called the Kessler Effect,satellites are being destroyed due to the cascading effect of debris from continuous ongoing debris strikescompounded by the existing space junk. The Kessler Effect is disruptingall space related communications.As a result, life on Earth is effectively returned to the 1800?s. No phoneservice, no power, no gasoline, no GPS, no transportation, no food andno municipal water. Riots soon break out, the National Guard is sent outto preserve order. People are dying. No one knows who is to blame forthe growing chaos. NASA cannot communicate with any of theastronauts on the ISS or on Mars. The astronauts are left to fend forthemselves.Things are looking very grim for the people of Earth, the astronauts onthe ISS and the astronauts on Mars. Can they survive and if so how?Mars Mission I : Surviving the Kessler Effect is a thrilling fictional story ofwhat could happen when enough debris is created in low earth orbit to initiate the Kessler Effect.