 How did Ledman get to Mars?
But no; she blamed it all on me somehow: So we were out walking on the spongy sand of the Martian desert. No, we had decided together to come to Mars—the way we decided together on everything. I watched her, sleeping peacefully, a wayward lock of her soft blonde hair trailing down over one eyebrow, and it seemed hard to believe that we'd exchanged Earth and all it held for us for the raw, untamed struggle that was Mars. I thought I knew everyone on sparsely-settled Mars. And that started the chain of events that led Val and me to end up as a madman's prisoners, on Mars. So, Mars. It slid up over the crest of a hill, set back between two hummocks on the desert.
 He saved his money to send himself
 He saved his money to send himself  He joined the Corps just as Val and Ron did  He was part of a uranium company who funded his trip  He posed as a tourist and stayed behind on a vacation