Chapter 6

It was an email from the National Space Agency Volunteer Program Management Office.

[Ms. Stella Thompson, congratulations on passing the final interview.

[Please bring all your personal identification documents to Headquarters this Friday at 10:00 AM to sign the final agreement and undergo a three-month closed training program.

[Upon completion of the training, you will board Pioneer One, our first colonization spacecraft, and head to Mars.

[This notice serves as final confirmation. Once the agreement is signed, it cannot be revoked.

[Please consider your decision carefully.]

I stared at the text on the screen for a very long time, watching…