Dr. It refuses to avert its gaze even for a moment.

No, it examines me closely, expectantly, an unblinking cyclopeian giant.

Maybe it doesn't want us here, trekking across the icy surface of one of its moons.

Maybe we are upsetting the largest planet in the solar system.

If Jupiter doesn't want us on Europa, then that makes two of us.

I don't want to be here either.

I would rather enjoy my time back home instead of

freezing on an impossible mission drilling a hole in the moon of a distant planet.

This isn't my ideal job, but it pays extraordinarily well.

With how my life is back on earth, a big paycheck changes the game.

Payday won't be easy though. The big paycheck changes the game.

Payday won't be easy though, but this isn't my first rodeo.

I can tough it up.

I can make it through. Space is already cold but the frozen crust of Europa makes it

even colder. Thankfully, our suits withstand these kinds of temperatures. Their internal heating systems keep me from completely

freezing. I'm warm enough to do my work. People think that Earth doesn't care about space

exploration anymore, but they couldn't be more wrong.

Human beings have never stopped caring about the stars above.

We have an innate need to venture out into the cosmos, and we still do.

We just don't broadcast it to the world anymore.

The truth is that space exploration has advanced astronomically since the day we landed on the moon,

or set up the International Space Station.

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