Fly Among The Stars
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” -Les Brown
JD read the quote continually.
“Hmph. What a load of crap.”
He was stranded in deep space for 2 months and lost communication with everyone else in the Universe. The radio and almost all electronics on board had stopped working. Reading the few books, he had brought again and again along with the voice of Serena (the ship's AI) was the only thing keeping him sane.
The light was flickering, and his oxygen supply was running low. He had almost run out of food and water, not that it mattered. If anything was going to run out first, it was the oxygen.
To confirm his thoughts, Serena spoke. “Oxygen at 5%.”
“So this is how it ends, huh,” he sighed. He was out of reach from home or any place that humans had inhabited at one point.
JD had left his fiancée back on Prime, and everything else he had loved so that he could find a new planet. Mars had been overrun by humans and left desolate like the Earth before it. His home planet, Prime, was on the same path, leaving humanity on a universal quest for a new ‘home’. So far, no planet had been found.
To make matters worse, the planets, Prime, Earth, and Mars, could not afford to make two-way trips. The astronauts…
