Alternate Universe – Space Program
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Im Nayeon has lived her life with her eyes tilted skyward as a child prodigy, the youngest PhD in her department, and a professor whose heart still beats in orbits and light curves. When Korea’s space agency announces an unprecedented all-women mission, the dream she once whispered to her father under the Perseids suddenly lies within reach.
Provisional acceptance means scrutiny. Health checks, politics, and people who scoff that “astronomy professors aren’t astronauts.” It means shouldering her sister’s neglected children, proving to her family and herself that chasing the sky isn’t a betrayal.
It means keeping quiet about the impossible chemistry she once felt at a Tokyo conference with Myoui Mina, the engineer whose steady hands and quiet brilliance have haunted her ever since.
As Nayeon trains, she learns that space is not only about equations and endurance, but also a fragile promise. To her father, to the children who believe in her, and to Mina, whose path is about to intersect with hers in the most dangerous, breathtaking way imaginable.
An Andromeda-bound story of ambition, love written between data points, and the cost of keeping promises beneath a patient sky.