The Mars trip lasted several hours before they decided to return home, as Liam finally gestured toward the spacecraft, and nobody argued.
They had been in space for more than twenty-four hours. They had walked on Mars. They had left footprints on a world that had never held human footprints before theirs.
They had become the first group to step on Mars and the first group to have experienced an actual space trip.
The trip back to Earth would take almost a day, so they had more than enough time to talk about their experiences.
They started talking about what they had experienced in the past 24 hours and the conversation started with Kristy who had recorded the entire experience, even Matt's spectacular seventh jump attempt, which she had already watched four times and showed no signs of stopping.
She had her phone out, scrolling through footage, and the others drifted toward her one by one until half the group was watching over her shoulder.
