No other planet has captured our collective imagination quite like Mars. In the late 1800s when people first observed the canal-like features on Mars’ surface, many speculated that an intelligent alien species lived there. This led to numerous stories about Martians, some of whom invade Earth, like in the 1938 radio drama, The War of the Worlds.
Countless stories since have taken place on the Red Planet or explored the possibilities of its Martian inhabitants. Movies like Total Recall take us to a terraformed Mars and a struggling colony running out of air, and in the 2015 movie adaptation The Martian, botanist Mark Watney is stranded alone on the planet and struggles to survive until a rescue mission can retrieve him.
This July marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took the small step onto the surface of the Moon that changed the course of history. NASA is now poised to take the next giant leap deeper into the solar system to Mars and beyond. To do so, it will need various industrial gases and gas equipment. There are a range of companies active in this space, including: CP Industries, Ad Astra Rocket, Chesterfield Special Cylinders (CSC), INOX, Tiger Optics and Gasmet.
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