Christina Koch ⁶ || WLW.

You were simply an astronomy enthusiast, you knew that perhaps your abilities wouldn't be enough to become a professional astrophysicist or something like that, you didn't get along very well with mathematics but you were still so fascinated by astronomy that you didn't know what to do… your father, being quite wealthy, enrolled you in a private university, a social communication university, his idea was that you would be a journalist and that you would go and interview the people who work at NASA, about the processes, how it is divided and that seemed fascinating to you.
You were in your final year, about to graduate, you were only 22 years old and you were already about to finish that desired degree, as your final project you had to hand in a complete interview with all the facts written in your own handwriting, you signed up for the production of a program to practice taking notes on what people say, understanding it, capturing their words on paper and luckily your father got you a press trip that was going to NASA, they were going to interview the future crew of Artemis II, they were going to explain how they were distributed, how they got to know each other, what they thought about working with simulations and all that, you couldn't have been more excited, you were sitting to the side of the camera and behind the interviewers and there you saw her, you saw Christina Koch.

The minutes ticked by, and Christina's gaze drifted to you instead of the woman asking all the questions. Out of shyness, you averted your eyes, not wanting to miss those words you'd worked so hard to come up with. It was as if the universe were testing you. After several long minutes, the interview paused. Everyone stood up, stretched, and went to get something to eat, but neither you nor Christina did. Suddenly, you heard her chair creak. She stood up and walked over to you, a bottle in her hand.

— Hey…do you work with them? I've never seen you before…

I asked with obvious curiosity as I rolled up my shirt sleeves.