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We are twenty days away from the arrival to Saturn, and so begins the process of slowing down. We will accomplish this by closing up our solar sails and igniting our rockets located on the front of the ship. The rockets will push the ship backwards therefore decreasing its speed. Because Iapetus has a small mass, thence its orbit will be too minimal for us to catch. Instead, we will catch Saturn’s orbit. As we our traveling towards Saturn, we will experience a fly-by of Iapetus. Once we are successfully in Saturn’s orbit our probe, EVA, will be deployed to Iapetus. While we are in Saturn’s orbit, we will be able to catch glimpses of Saturn’s moons and crunch the data collected by Eva. Twenty days before our two and a half month deadline of orbit around Saturn, we will start the operation of departing. Our first step is to open up our solar sails and angle them at a 45 degree angle to begin tacking. For those of you who don’t know what tacking is it is an act of changing course by turning a vessel's head into and through the wind, so as to bring the wind on the opposite side. Yes, there is wind in space it is called solar wind. After the first step has been carried through, we will once again ingnite our rockets, however this time we will ignite the rockets on the back of the ship to travel forward. We will then have enough momentum to sling-shot out to saturn’s orbit, propelling the Stella Luna forward. To make this process possible, the rockets we are using are extremely powerful. I sincerly thanks to the guys at NASA for thinking up our process of arrival and departure to Saturn.