“You heard me. No landing system. We’ll need guidance for in-flight course adjustments. But once it gets to Mars, it’s going to crash.” “That’s crazy!” Jack said. “It’ll be going an insane velocity when it hits!” “Yep,” Bruce said. “With ideal atmospheric drag, it’ll impact at three hundred meters per second.” “What good will a pulverized probe do Watney?” Jack asked. “As long as the food doesn’t burn up on the way in, Watney can eat it,” Bruce said.
