Michael Griffin, NASA's cherubic and relentlessly optimistic administrator, hopes that names are destiny: He is promising that Ares will launch mankind outward to
the fourth planet of our solar system, a dream of virtually everyone ever involved in the space program, but one that has been abandoned repeatedly in the past.
Life On Mars — not to be confused with the two TV shows that have already run with that Bowie - alluding name — will see Krasinski shifting his aims from post-apocalyptic Earth to the equally barren surface
of our
solar system's
fourth planet, centering on a young woman trying to survive on the Red P
planet, centering on a young woman trying to survive on the Red
PlanetPlanet.