Red Mars
How are the first hundred colonists selected to go to Mars in the novel, Red Mars?
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Michel Duval, a psychiatrist, was sent with a hundred and fifty finalist scientists to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, where they lived and worked together for a year, learning to use specialized equipment. This was done to choose the final hundred that would travel to Mars as the first colonizers.
Red Mars