The showers on board the Hippomenes were hot or cold air blasters equipped with dry shampoo and a few other cleaning supplies that didn’t require water. Jenna slipped off her suit without attending the staff meeting. Brad, Jayden, and Selina were huddled around the screen with Captain Audrey Paz. Jenna ran her fingers through her long dark brown hair, hair that had taken her seven years to painstakingly grow. Nothing ever seemed to grow in space; it hung there in suspended animation. Even when the gravity gauge was on, the hair never had body. People like Selina cut hers super-short and called it a day. Other women astronauts, especially other black ones, would keep their hair in tight corn rows for the longer missions.
But Jenna had worked hard for her hair and she liked to feel it on he
