Day: May 11, 2018

Doug had been on the spaceship for several weeks.  On Earth, he had been part of what people called “the 1 percent”.  He never had to struggle in his life, but now he found himself bored as could be all alone on a spaceship heading to Artemis, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri.  The ship was running on an antimatter engine.  It took him to the colony in just under 90 days—an amount of time unprecedented to people of the 21st century.  The journey there was especially hard for him because…