282 Not Fifty

In the conference room of Kennedy Space Center's building number 12, the seven trainees each received a thick training manual from NASA. It was met with varying degrees of reactions.

"This sixty-page stuff is just an index?"

Plump Anderson felt as if he was about to break down. "Learning basic physics of rockets, aerodynamics, orbital mechanics, jet propulsion, astronomy... I get all these, but why in the world are biology, geology, and material science even in here? And I don't understand the title 'electronic engineering.' How can we cram so much in fifty-five days?"

"A gentle reminder – that's just the theoretical part of it," the high-school student said.

"What's after that?" Anderson groaned.