A Modern Ulysses

The military Ulysses Steven was chosen as an explorer in the year 2081.
Ulysses, must go to examine a meteorite that, just a year earlier, had crashed into the coast of Fort George, in Quebec.
There had been no explosion or, direct destruction of the Earth in the impact.
But as soon as Steven gets there, he will feel like Ulysses who, in his quest to overcome the Pillars of Hercules, paid the high price of curiosity with his life...