Others Will Follow is a great sci-fi space exploration short by Andrew Finch about the last survivor of a Mars expedition. Via Space.Com:
“As I was writing the short, I was thinking about how NASA had parked its spaceships in museums in the decades since the contingency speech was written. Most humans alive today didn’t exist the last time humanity left low Earth orbit, and my generation is without a moon shot,” filmmaker Andrew Finch, who made the short, wrote in an email to Space.com.
“I wanted to make something that would outline the importance of human spaceflight by imagining a brute-force mission to Mars in the early 2000s that, despite disastrous circumstances, still manages to pass the torch of inspiration,” he added.
Human missions to Mars were popularized, in part, by the 2015 Hollywood movie “The Martian,” which coincidentally also portrayed an astronaut left behind alone on the Red Planet. In that case, however, the crew abandoned the astronaut because the others assumed he had died. As “The Martian” shows, the stranded explorer, Mark Watney, was very much alive — and had several ideas for staying alive until a rescue mission came.
NASA has not yet sent humans to Mars, of course, but the agency has said it plans to do so in the 2030s. Other groups and individuals — such as Russia, China, Mars One and Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX — have also outlined plans to bring humans to the Red Planet.