Netflix treks into `The Mars Generation´ with hopeful documentary
(World News Science)

Netflix´s new space documentary introduces us to several bespeckled, bright-eyed teens who identify as `the Mars generation.` They are perceptive and smart, priding themselves on being labeled `space nerds.` It´s all very endearing, without becoming saccharine. But there is wistful feeling of melancholy here, given how every recent generation also believed it was, in spirit, the Mars generation. So what separates this crop of dreamers? The fact that we are closer than we´ve ever been to Mars, for starters. Even if NASA is no longer funded as it was during the Space Race that started in 1957—4 percent of government funding went to NASA in the 1960s, compared to the 0.04 percent that is...