'TETHERED BY MEMORIES'
STORY: "Miles apart, even greater than the expanse of the ocean, but looking at the pale blue dot from here makes me homesick," said Noah, the co-pilot, to Sarah, a fellow co-pilot. A 12-member team was stationed on the International Space Station for a mission to study the effects of cosmological radiation on plants. As Noah gazed through the glass shield, a wave of life’s reflection washed over him. After losing his family in a crash, he often found himself questioning the purpose of it all. Turning to Sarah, he whispered, his voice thick with emotion, "Sometimes you wish you could hold onto things, but they often end up as mere memories." His eyes were filled with longing. While speaking about their desires, they heard their captain Nick’s voice over the speaker, and they returned to their main cabin. Nick said, “There’s an engine malfunction in the Orion module! All the automated systems have begun to shut down....