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the wall. When you get to the loading 
bay next to the airlocks, you look 
through the door window, but all you 
can see is the looming shape of a lunar buggy. 
Opening the door, you step inside and edge round 
the buggy to where Kamari is standing in a bay 
where different sized spacesuits are hanging on 
their racks.
“Hey, ready to suit up?” you ask.
“Uh, sure,” they reply but don’t sound convincing. 
Kamari picks out one of the suits and drops it, 
complaining how heavy it is. You lay out on the 
floor together and they climb in through the chest. 
After a lot of wriggling around you help get them 
up on their feet.
“How does that feel?” you ask and laugh when 
they answer “Like I’m wearing a sleeping bag.”
Annoyed at how long it is taking, you pass over a 
helmet and then finally, Kamari is ready. You both 
stand before the smaller airlock door, which is 
for crew on foot, rather than in the lunar buggy. 
implants in people’s brains. Look, I’m going to 
have to talk to the medical team and the systems 
engineers. This is really important, Kiran. Well done. 
Leave the tracking and the uplink. We can monitor 
it from here. Really good work.”
Dr Kumar stops his broadcast. You spend the next 
few minutes looking at the read-outs and staring 
the spacecraft. It looks so…alien? Is that the word? 
Could it really be…? Your thoughts are interrupted 
by Sasha calling you again.
“Hey, Kiran. I see you’ve stopped talking to Dr 
Kumar. Are you free to do something else?”
“Sure, I guess.”
“We need to send Kamari outside and they need 
some assistance getting into their spacesuit. Will 
you get down there and help?”
“Ok.”
You head out and follow the arrows to the EVA 
airlocks. At one point you pass an adult crew 
member but he is standing in a corner, staring at 

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