Here is a great opportunity for
anyone who loves the space exploration and wants to recollect all the dangerous
adventures that occurred in the book The
Martian. From inverted roller coasters to puzzles, this Martian theme park
includes board games, crazy rides to pull serous G, a zero atmosphere space
room, and many more. All these systems are to help you re-live the Mark Watney
on Mars dilemma.
In The Martian, Mark Watney is an astronaut
with degrees in both botany and mechanical engineer sent to Mars with five
other astronauts like him with degrees in different fields. In their first week
on Mars, the crew get hit with a huge sandstorm and abort mission to come back
to Earth, however, while trying to get to their escape pod, Watney gets impaled
with a radio antenna. Checking the computer signals from Watney’s space suit,
the crew think that Watney died due to exposure to the Mars’ atmosphere. The
crew finally depart, leaving Watney’s body on Mars since they couldn’t find it.
Having luck on his side Watney’s blood seals the suit and he ends up surviving the
big storm. With communications down and everyone on Earth believing he had died,
Watney uses his problem solving skills as an engineer to fix many of problems
he will face being the only person on Mars.
“Actually, I was the very
lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the
only remaining person.” What do you know? I’m in command”. He uses
leadership skill, clever techniques, his ability to think on his feet,
and applies his education in botany to grow potatoes on Mars to increase his
food supply until the next Mars mission, which is in about 3 to 4 years. Being
the only person on Mars, Watney faces challenges almost every day, some of
which include: carbon dioxide filters not working, food supply diminishing,
breaches in the dome structure he lives in which has one atmospheric pressure
to keep him alive. “Yes, of course
duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic
and should be worshiped.” Yes, in the theme park there will be
duct tape and a near vacuum space room and people will be able to explore the difficulties
to move with a spacesuit on. Watney uses a lot of mental math and physics to
calculate his survival with the supplies on hand; there will be math and
physics problems in the board games at the theme park for people to enjoy the
thinking part of the story. There will be lots of trial and error but as Watney
says “I guess you could call it a
"failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
As the audience knows, reading The Martian kept them at the edge of their seat the entire time.
Creating a theme park where they can experience the space age technology with
similar tasks as Watney will help them relate to Watney’s struggle on Mars.
Almost everyone loves technology and this is the best way to give them the experience
of a lifetime. This theme park is not only for adults, but kids from school can
come also. They can learn about the latest technology used in NASA, solve math
and physics problems, and impress their teachers with their knowledge of rocket
science. As technology is ever changing, the audience of this book can stay
connected and involved with the author by having different experiences every
time they visit and getting updates on the author’s progress on his new books.
In the theme park however, the main attraction will be the 0G, 0atm. space room. 
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