I made sure to phone home today. The past few days I've been so exhausted by the training sessions in the buoyancy lab and the additional reading I've been doing through all the manuals of the equipment that I actually forgot to call home. That made me feel like a shitty mother. It was one thing not to be there for my son. It's another to entirely forget to think of him.
In my defense it hasn't been that the prospect of calling home slipped my mind entirely. I still think about Diego and Dad constantly throughout the day. I've just fallen asleep before I got the chance to reach out.
Still, I need to do better while I have the chance. The launch is coming soon. Before I know it, I will be in cryogenic sleep.
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Europa
Science FictionIn order to embark on a mission to discover alien life on the icy moon of Jupiter Maria must leave her life on Earth behind, including her father and her seven-year-old son Diego. She thought the hardest part of the mission would be saying goodbye...
