Saturday, November 8, 2014

CHAPTER - 03 - MY3 MARS EXPEDITION

In earth, two leading Indian Corporate gaints, Alliance Retail & Crobaxy pharmacuticals make a tie up recently. 
They are interested in exploring a venture to invest in ISRO's proposed manned mission MY3 along with the expertiese from Defense Research & Development Organization DRDO.
According to the plan, ISRO's manned mission will be provided with trained astronauts from DRDO. 
The project will be funded majorly by the corporate tie up.
DRDO sends out the best of the crew with them, Madhavan, known as Maddy - The captain, who is a decorated war hero. It is decided that he leads the mission.

Maddy's team will have 3 others, another trained astronauts from Maddy's battalion, Prithviraj 

and 2 scientists from DRDO specially trained for the Mars mission, 
one, is the award winning scientist with a good sense of humor, Arjunan - who had worked previously on the Indian Rocket research with ex-president Dr. Abdul Kalam 

and another, a military doctor deputed in siachen, Priyanka. Priyanka is also a boxer and has won gold medal in olympics representing India.











The 4 member team is assisted by a robot - Chitti - who is the first of his kind of z-series robots. Chitti won the best Robot in international Robot Conference and is entrusted the mother ship maintenance as well as safety & guidance of the crew.

The team head off for the year long journey to Mars and in the way - will be orbitting close to Venus and then sling shot into orbit to reach Mars.



The plan is to launch a sister pod with the rocket pod. The sister pod will be an inflatable green house comfortable enough for 4 people to stay inside.
The rocket pod has the crew inside them with fuel pods attached. 
The plan is to drop at Area 15 - closer to 'Saagar' site - where, the crew will set up their green houses and also prepare the rocket pod to launch from Mars and dock back to the mothership.

On reaching Mars, Arjunan and Chitti will be on Mothership guiding the other 3 members of the team, who will be going on a rocket capsule into the Martian surface.
The plan works perfect till they reach the Martian orbit, then catastrophy strikes. 
While the rocket capsule is dislodged from the mother ship and makes its way into the Martian surface, a huge dust storm along with a solar flare, makes it difficult for the team's Martian landing. The sister pod with greenhouse gets dislodged at the right place, but the rocket pod gets swifted by the wind away from the landing spot.
The Solar flare sends out the Mother ship's circuits into disarray - this causes the Mother ship unable to help the rocket capsule landing.
Maddy, as the captain, regains control of the rocket capsule and safely manuvers the rocket into a rough landing escaping crash and landing near a crater.

The crew regain control after 12 hours of rewiring the circuits. 
Meanwhile the mothership is being repaired by Chitti and the mother ship has already started scanning for the rocket pod and found them and started beaming signals.


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