Falling Through Space

<p><strong>Space is vast mostly empty extremely cold very dangerous and just generally a rotten place to travel. </strong></p><p></p><p>But what if a spaceship out there had no passengers? Would it get lonely? </p><p></p><p>Would it go searching for new customers? </p><p></p><p>And what if...it found <em>us?</em></p><p></p><p>This is the story of Flynn Hopper a graduate assistant in astrophysics and a last-minute addition to a team making humanity's first trip to the outer planets. The expedition is privately funded...it employs a hazardous and technically unexplainable craft...and it may be just a bit illegal. </p><p></p><p>Who would go on such a thing? (That is if it weren't for the cheap tickets and high potential for career-making discoveries.) </p><p></p><p>What adventures might a young crew member on such a mission fall into?</p><p></p><p>Who would he have to leave behind? </p><p></p><p>And what would he find there in outer space-or rather <em>what would find him?</em></p>