Deep Space: The Jupiter Encounter
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When a crew of astronauts investigating a strange space disaster discover an alien artifact on a top-secret space station, their mission goals morph into simple survival.
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In the winter of 2087, the dark and covert part of NASA comes back online when they lose all contact from the top-secret space station Astroria, orbiting Jupiter. A crew of astronauts must travel to the rotating wheel to find out what happened, alone. Their mission: find our what happened. But not everyone wants the truth to get out and, as politics collides with espionage, sceince and cold-blooded murder, a second, more bloodier spacerace ensues and the crew find themselves in the very center of it. What they would find would make them rethink their understanding of the universe...and humanity's chances of survival.
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