brushing our teeth I have a thirteen-year-old brother named Apollo He thinks he’s cooler than winter Cosmo is my super-cute five-year-old brother If you ask me he is cooler than winter We call him Cozzie for short We’re helping lead the new world of space tourism so that people can take vacations to space I like to call them space-cations The head of the entire space program is Mrs Sosa She’s my mom’s boss Her granddaughter Tia and I work together Tia trains kids on Earth to get them ready for space I help them with life in space once they’re on the station My best friend Allison thinks I’ll forget all about her now that I live in space but just because I live in space doesn’t mean I don’t need my best friend
I may be a regular girl but my life is completely out of this world
Chapter 1 PANIC AND FEAR I was in my pod looking out into space and trying to get a better look at Mars My phone buzzed and I tapped the screen to answer I grabbed hold of a stabilizer bar to keep my balance Floating in zero gravity can be tricky Hey Allison I said Allison and I talk all the time even though she’s on Earth and I was in our space station approaching Mars Normally it would take about six minutes for the phone signal to reach Earth from where we were but Professor Will invented an amazing new phone system so we can make calls just as we would on Earth Professor Will is great his job is to build whatever machines we might need to help us with our missions in