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Solar System: 2021 The Stella Maris: 2021-2022 Earth Relative

George fills Anne in on the Stella Maris, the asteroid-made vehicle, dispelling many of her reservations. When the Stella Maris launches, with Anne in it, and she begins to float, Anne has a moment of true belief, feeling certainty that God is real.

The crew is made up of D.W. Yarbrough, Sofia Mendes, Marc Robichaux, a naturalist and watercolorist of the Jesuit Society, James Connor Quinn, now designated mission specialist, Alan Pace, musicologist, and Anne and George Edwards. Their first days are spent in high spirits; Sandoz making jokes, Anne and George exploring sexual intercourse at zero gravity, everyone getting adjusted to the nausea, and finally D.W...