{"product_id":"2940015502039","title":"A MARTIAN ODYSSEY","description":"Jarvis stretched himself as luxuriously as he could in the cramped\u003cbr\u003egeneral quarters of the _Ares_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Air you can breathe!\" he exulted. \"It feels as thick as soup after the\u003cbr\u003ethin stuff out there!\" He nodded at the Martian landscape stretching\u003cbr\u003eflat and desolate in the light of the nearer moon, beyond the glass of\u003cbr\u003ethe port.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other three stared at him sympathetically--Putz, the engineer,\u003cbr\u003eLeroy, the biologist, and Harrison, the astronomer and captain of the\u003cbr\u003eexpedition. Dick Jarvis was chemist of the famous crew, the _Ares_\u003cbr\u003eexpedition, first human beings to set foot on the mysterious neighbor of\u003cbr\u003ethe earth, the planet Mars. This, of course, was in the old days, less\u003cbr\u003ethan twenty years after the mad American Doheny perfected the atomic\u003cbr\u003eblast at the cost of his life, and only a decade after the equally mad\u003cbr\u003eCardoza rode on it to the moon. They were true pioneers, these four of\u003cbr\u003ethe _Ares_. Except for a half-dozen moon expeditions and the ill-fated\u003cbr\u003ede Lancey flight aimed at the seductive orb of Venus, they were the\u003cbr\u003efirst men to feel other gravity than earth's, and certainly the first\u003cbr\u003esuccessful crew to leave the earth-moon system. And they deserved that\u003cbr\u003esuccess when one considers the difficulties and discomforts--the months\u003cbr\u003espent in acclimatization chambers back on earth, learning to breathe the\u003cbr\u003eair as tenuous as that of Mars, the challenging of the void in the tiny\u003cbr\u003erocket driven by the cranky reaction motors of the twenty-first century,\u003cbr\u003eand mostly the facing of an absolutely unknown world.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084424921328,"sku":"2940015502039","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015502039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}