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Hello, Earth!
====Angelica here. We have just reached the outer space and the view is jaw-dropping! Earth looks so big, but wait until you see Saturn...From now on, the crew is going to be traveling for about six months, tearing through space 90 kilometers per second, using a propulsion system called Solar Sails. We will be landing a probe called EVA on one of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, and hopefully perform a fly by on the planet. The round-trip is going to take about a year and we will spend about two and a half months gathering and researching data, and to also take many pictures of the things we encounter. ====

Day 10-
====Ten days into our mission, we have encountered many floating asteroids. One nearly hit the side of our home base. Luckily, another asteroid bumped it off course. ====

Day 84-
====Nothing much has happened throughout our voyage. To help our mind occupied, a little cards helped, and once and a while we turned our home base into an anti-gravity chamber. That was fun. It has been smooth sailing and nothing has gone wrong so far… wait, I spoke too soon. ==== ====At our day eighty-four mark, our Solar Sail was suddenly going haywire. Sirens alarming, crew members having nervous breakdown, it was such a mess. We were being sucked into Jupiter’s gravitational force! Everyone is just randomly pushing buttons! Then I thought, “We didn’t just spend the past couple of months training for this mission for nothing? We know what to do so we all need to just calm down,” The only solution we had was to ignite our spare rocket of pull ourselves in the opposite direction as the gravitational pull. Luckily, it worked! Now, we are just making that none of the devices and components of the Solar Sail are damaged. ====