When two people learn they've got about a year to live they choose to do something meaningful with the rest of their lives rather than die in some hospital bed. Visiting a city near the American space agency launch facilities in Florida they read about volunteers needed to help conduct research on a space project that will test the endurance of the most fit individual, not terminally ill strangers from opposite ends of the world.
Fast-track training, a cramped experimental spacecraft, an astronomical secret nobody is supposed to know about, and two people about to die are brought together in a unique way for a One Way mission. Their four-month journey will take Michiko and RJ to a point in space near Mars for a single goal: To deflect a ball of rock, metal, ice, and carbon from its path to destroy the Earth using their spaceship, the Caelum, with both of them still on board.
Approx 280 pages and over 130,000 words
