Christinahammock Stories

They say gravity is the force that keeps you grounded. For Reid Wiseman, it was the sound of her turning a page. Christina Hammock is quiet and driven. Reid is loud and deflecting. Victor Glover sees everything. Jeremy Hansen says nothing until it's too late. Together, the four of them spent years chasing the same impossible dream --- and somewhere between the failures, the late nights, and the silences that said too much, they discover that growing up is sometimes just as hard as reaching space. Some people fall for each other like a meteor. Fast, bright, gone before you even make a wish. Reid and Christina fell the way astronauts fall from orbit. Slowly. Without realizing it. Until they were already too far in to stop. Now NASA just put them all on the same rocket to Mars. Some distances don't actually help. And some forces are stronger than gravity.

"Imagine," she whispered, "being up there." Her father looked at her for a long moment before answering. "You could be." Selene laughed immediately. "No way." "Why not?" "People like me don't go to space." ☆ Since she was ten years old Selene Watson dreamt about becoming an astronaut. Now years later she works at NASA and is selected as backup astronaut for the Artemis II.

A new media/communications intern begins at NASA, excited to pursue her dreams, when she's assigned to assist her idol, Christina Koch, things begin to change.