The tragedies they had experienced did not end with their venture into space, rather they embarked on another kind of tragedy.
Dr. Bean, as the head of the project and the main possessor of the spaceship's technology, became the most powerful person on the ship. When the ship took off, many compromises were made, and the number of people aboard was much more than planned.
Dr. Bean's flight destination was a planet suspected to be habitable, Chadi Star, which was about 234 astronomical units away from Taoran Star. The spaceship did not carry much fuel; it mainly traveled at a constant speed in space, utilizing each encounter with planets to use their gravity to sling the spaceship forward, resulting in acceleration.