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Sasha nods but isn’t feeling great. “You’ve seen 
that the spacecraft has left?”
“Yes,” says Josef, “we’re tracking it from here. It 
accelerated so quickly that it has already reached 
a cruising velocity, which means we can project its 
trajectory. You’re not going to believe this, Sasha, 
but it’s going to Mars.”
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The End
“The telescope is set to track it. That means it’s 
moving. Fast! It’s getting smaller. Look at it go. The 
telescope can’t even detect a trace of the signal any 
more. Turn off the jamming signal. We’ve got to tell 
Earth.”
Devon does something and the shrieking noise of 
the jammer stopped. 
“What is going on?” demands Commander Hopper 
in a rasping voice.
Just at that moment, Josef, the Earth CapCom, 
appears on the screen.
“Sasha! You did it! Well done. Really well done.” 
There is the sound of cheering in the background. 
“Is Commander Hopper ok?”
“Yes, and the crew have started checking in. A 
couple aren’t responding. It may have gone on just 
a little bit too long – on the cameras we can see 
they’re unconscious.”
“You made the right call, Sasha. We had to do it this 
way.”

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