The media coverage back on Earth was constant, of course, of the journey of the Ironsides, Constitution, and O’Hare now halfway to Mars. On and on through the void, it would be another four and a half months until Ironsides would enter the gravitational pull of the red planet.
Lorileigh went through her personal items bag and then looked at the envelope that read Lorileigh her grandmother Lacy had given it to her a week before liftoff, telling her “When you are halfway there, open it.”
