When planning, preparation, redundancies and contingencies fail, Mark Watney uses creativity to overcome challenges and stay alive. A problem that Mark faces is not enough food which is solved by planting crops. Mark’s faceplate broke, so he repairs it with his arm sleeve. A final problem that he deals with is a leak, which is solved by burning his hair.
The first thing that failed was Mark being left of Mars. This was not the fault of the crew but this brought a lot of challenges for Watney. The first challenge is that Mark does not have enough food. The Ares 3 mission was supposed to last the 6 crew members 31 days. Enough food was provided for each person to last over 50 days. Since he is left on Mars for a much longer period of time, he