"Jaehee.. You wanted to see me?" Park Jungsu smiled as his childhood friend walked into his office.. "I just got your email.. Our schedule has been cancelled?" she asked

"I'm sorry.. But we've had several engine failures and FRF has been officially unsuccessful.." Jungsu sighed

"It's just an engine test. You are not launching my students into space" Ridley threw her hands up.

"And the booster A is really touchy right now"

"Do you know why?"

"We have no idea" Jungsu looked down at the ground

"You're Mission Control Commander! You should know these things" Ridley raised her voice. "All I know is we can't initiate an engine test with people inside, it's too dangerous. Until Mission Control has actual use for me, I will remain one of this school's counselors"

"And break the news to my boys? They've been so excited about this for days" Ridley pouted and sat down.. Jungsu looked down at her and put his hand on her shoulder. "... Remember when we were teenagers?" Jungsu smiled

"Why bring this up now?" Ridley giggled

"And you always told me how you wanted to go into space?"

"We both wanted to.."

"That's not entirely true" Jungsu wagged his finger. Ridley looked up at him. 

"Well.. I'm just happy you're here with me" she smiled and put her hand over his. He smiled and winked back at her and walked back behind his desk to get some candy for him and Ridley to share. "So.. Who are these students of yours?" Jungsu asked

"Their names are N, Leo, Hongbin, Ravi, Ken, and Hyuk" she smiled as she thought of them, totally forgetting that she used their nicknames. Jungsu laughed. "Those are some odd names"

"Huh? OH! Sorry.. Those are nicknames I gave them" Ridley giggled.

"I remember you always liked to give our friends nicknames" Jungsu shook his head

"Their names are Hakyeon, Hongbin, Wonshik, Sanghyuk, Jaehwan, and Taekwoon" she explained. Jungsu paused what he was doing and looked up at her. "Jung Taekwoon?" he asked

"Yeah.. You know him?"

"I gave my scholarship to him"

"Really? Why?"

"His grades didn't meet the requirements, and he was so heartbroken when director Choi told him he couldn't stay" Jungsu explained

"He didn't have the grades to stay....?" Ridley whispered, not being able to believe it. "But he's one of the smartest young men I know"

"I know, right? How on Earth did he not qualify?" Jungsu said as he sat at his desk. 

Then a short silence

"Reminds me of myself..." Ridley said. "How so?" Jungsu tilted his head

"Oh, you know how many times I've tried going to NASA.. I've been trying for years, but they always choose someone else. I don't think I'm good enough, probably so does Taekwoon" Ridley rambled on. "You are good enough. Maybe.. There's just... something you're missing.." Jungsu thought out loud. 

"... Maybe.." she muttered

----

Later that night in 12B, Ken woke up from a dream in the middle of the night and decided to look around campus for a water fountain to get a drink of water. As he walked around in the cold, looking up at the stars, he finally spotted a drinking fountain and took a few sips. Then, suddenly, something broke the silence and Ken's sprung up. "Who's there???" he called out. But nobody called back..

Ken backed away from the water fountain and fast walked back to his building. Standing by the door was Rovix. 

"Rovix?" Ken asked. "H-yuuk" the robot said as he woke up from his own rest

"No.. It's not Hyuk.. I'm Ken, I'm just a friend of Hyuk" Ken explained. 

"Hyuuuk i-ss my friiiiend" Rovix said. "I know.. He's been wondering why you keep disappearing" Ken said.

"Hyukk will-l goo to s-s-space" 

"Maybe someday..." Ken sighed and looked up at the stars

"Nooo" Rovix said. Ken looked back down at him and tilted his head. "No?"

"Sooon"

"That would be nice" Ken giggled

"Do-o you wannnt to go-o-o to spaaaace?" Rovix asked 

"More than anything" Ken smiled. 

"You wiii-i-ill"

"I'll work hard at it.." Ken nodded and stood up to open the door. "Tu-u-uesdaay" Ken heard Rovix say

Ken turned around. "Tuesday?"

"You wiiill gooo-o Tu-esday"

"No, that's just an engine test.. " Ken shook his head

"FFForced laa-aauch"

"W-What?" Ken started to feel afraid by this point..

"Therrrma-l cuuurtainn fa-iiilu--re" Rovix said.

He had heard enough. Ken's breathing became irregular and he ran back into the building, leaving the robot outside.

He ran back to his bed with haste, as if he had just shut off all the lights in the house and had the feeling a monster was following close behind him up the stairs. Ken tried hard not to wake Hyuk as he climbed up to his place on the top bunk. 

"What is that damn robot planning?" he thought, unable to fall back asleep.

----

"Jung Taekwoon!" Leo heard someone call him for behind. He turned around and saw his counselor. "Mr. Park!" Leo smiled and waved. "I haven't seen you since the first day of the semester.."

"I know! How have you been?" Jungsu smiled as he walked with him. "Everything has been okay, I guess.." Leo said

"You guess?" Jungsu asked

"Well..."

Jungsu listened as Leo tried to think of the words to say. "Counselor's help with personal problems.. Right?" 

"Of course, that's one of our duties.. Have you never been to a counselor?" Jungsu asked. Leo shrugged "Not for personal issues" 

"Well, what's on your mind?" he asked. Leo stopped walking when he spotted a bench and sat down. "It's about one of my friends. He said he was sent here by his parents and he's really... neglected by them" Leo tried to explain

"Neglected?"

"His parents never answer his phone calls and he wants nothing more than to speak to them.. It's really heart breaking for the rest of us"

"Well, that's his problem.. If he needs to talk to someone, tell him to come to me. Or he has you and your other friends.." Jungsu smiled

"But the problem is, I asserted myself in the situation. A night or two ago, I stole his phone and called his parents from my phone. They picked up my phone call but they won't pick up his.. I got really mad and called them out" Leo confessed. 

"Does your friend know about this?" Jungsu asked. "No.. You're the only person I told. I'm afraid he'll get mad at me if I tell him" Leo sighed and picked up leaves off the ground..

"I think you should tell him. It's better to be truthful than to keep things to yourself. You'll be a better friend that way. Any besides, you didn't do it for no reason.. Right?" Jungsu gave his advice

"He said his parents were just too busy to reply to his phones calls. But I had the feeling they were just ignoring him. So I thought if they get a call from a different number, then that means I was right.." Leo explained

"Aaahh.. Well.. Regardless, I think you should talk to your friend about it. Is he a scary guy?" Jungsu asked

"No, not really.."

"Then, I think you'll be fine.." Jungsu smiled and patted Leo on the back..

----

"That's it for this hall.. Take five and we'll meet in hall 12" Ridley nodded her head and the six boys went their seperate ways, except for Ken.

"Noona.. I need to ask you a question.. I know it's a shame that I don't know, but I'm curious" Ken walked up to Ridley and said.

"Sure. What's up sweetheart?" she smiled

"What does thermal curtain failure mean?" Ken asked, remembering what Rovix said. "Why do you wanna know that, Ken?" she asked. "It came up in a book I read and I couldn't really find the definition to it afterwards" Ken lied.

"Well, thermal curtain failure is when one of the two boosters on a shuttle overheats and ignites during an engine test and the shuttle is forced to launch. But if you only ignite one booster, the shuttle lifts off then come back to the ground and crash" Ridley explained as Ken listened. "And the only way for it not to crash..?"

"You'd have to ignite the other booster. And thus, you have a successful lift-off" Ridley smiled. 

"Ohh.. " Ken simply said. 

"Does that answer your question?" she asked

"Has it ever happened before?"

"Nope.."

"Are you sure?"

"Ken, what's with all the questions?" Ridley asked

"I'm sorry.. When I wanna know something.. I kinda get, emmersed in it" Ken laughed. Ridley looked at him weird and shook her head. "Well, to the best of my knowledge.. No, it's never happened" she finally answered

"Okay.. I'll stop here" Ken smiled and started to walk away. "Jaehwannie" Ridley called him. Ken turned around. "Are you sure you're okay?" she asked again. 

Ken shook his head. "I'm fine.. I'm sorry if I worried you" he said and walked away, trying to seem calm.

----

"Ravi.." Leo tapped Ravi on the shoulder as he lay in bed, playing on his phone. "Hey, hyung" he smiled.

"Can I... talk to you outside for a moment?" Leo asked and pointed to the door. Ravi only nodded and followed him outside. As they walked outside in the dark, Ravi started to feel nervous. "What's up? Is there something wrong?" Ravi asked

"It's about your parents" Leo sighed. He hated telling him that he invaded his personal life and butted in to the situation

But that's who Leo was. That's who Jung Taekwoon was.

"Okay?" Ravi said. 

"They are not too busy to talk to you.." Leo started. Ravi only stayed quiet. "They've been ignoring you" Leo went on.

"How do you know this, hyung? How? I know that the issue bothers you a lot and you have a soft spot for parents but why do you have to come to the worst possible scenarios? I want to trust you, hyung, but these things you try to fill my brain with feels like poison. How do you know what my family has been up to? How can you say for certain-"

"I know because I called them!" Leo stopped Ravi's rant, to which he froze

....

"I called your parents. I stole your phone after you fell asleep a couple nights ago and called your parents using my phone number" he went on.

....

"And they picked up, Wonshik... They picked up my phone call, but they won't ever pick up yours! What does that tell you?"

Ravi looked down at the ground, his brain foggy with thoughts. 

"I got really mad and called them out.. I'm sorry, Ravi. I was so mad" Leo apologized and looked down at him as Ravi sat down on the ground. 

"Did they... Did they talk about me?" Ravi asked

"No.." Leo shook his head. "I never gave them a chance to"

Ravi nodded and started to feel a tear escape his eye. "Wonshik, I'm really sorry. I wish I could take it back. I want you to keep trying to talk to them. I want you to keep loving them.. I want to help fix this.. I want-"

"Stop" Ravi stopped Leo's rambling. "Don't say sorry.. Y-You've opened m-my eyes" he started to cry. "But you still love them... Right?" Leo asked, to which Ravi only nodded. Leo took a deep breath and embraced his younger friend, who was sobbing.

----

"Hyung! You've been quiet all night.. That's not like you" Hyuk said to Ken, who read a book on his bed. "Where is that robot of yours?" Ken asked

"Rovix? He's probably just roaming campus like he usually does... Why?" Hyuk asked

"I talked to him the other night and he said something that sorta freaked me out..."

"What did he say..?"

"He said we'll be going to space. And I said 'yeah, maybe someday'. But Rovix was all 'no, you'll go on Tuesday'. And then he said something about thermal curtain failure.." Ken explained his frightening ordeal

"Thermal curtain failure?"

"It's when one out of the two boosters on a shuttle ignites during an engine test, forcing the shuttle to launch"

"Whoa.. But that means the shuttle wouldn't be balanced and it would just come back down to the ground during lift-off and it would crash.."

"Yeah, I know"

"So.. What do you think it means?" Hyuk asked

"I don't know. He's your robot!" Ken raised his voice. "Hyung, calm down.. I'll figure it out once I find Rovix.. He's gotta be around here somewhere" Hyuk said, trying hard to calm his bunk buddy down

----

After the students went to bed, Ridley sat in her office, reading files when her phone rang. She picked it up after rubbing her burning eyes and pressed 'talk' "Hello?" she said into the phone

"Jaehee!" she heard Jungsu's voice into the phone. "Jungsu.. Why are you calling me so late?"

"I talked to the director of Mission Control Operations. He's giving me permission to let you and your students into the shuttle during our next engine test on Tuesday" Jungsu delivered the good news. Ridley gasped, dropped the phone, and left her office.

"Hello? Hello? Jaehee? Are you there??" Jungsu asked over and over when he got no response to his news. Jungsu finally gave up and hung up the phone. "Maybe she's so excited, she needed time to herself.. I hope she's happy" he thought and prepared to leave his office to go to bed. Just when he picked up the keys to lock the door, Ridley opened the door with a huge smile on her face. "Jaehee! What are you doing here? It's late" Jungsu asked truly dumbfounded

"Thank you" Ridley smiled

"W-What for?" Jungsu smiled back. "For trying so hard to get us back on the shuttle. I'm so happy" she beamed, walking over his desk and swinging her arms around Jungsu's neck in a hug. He smiled and wrapped his arms around her waist

----

Later on that night, around 3am, N was woken up by the sound of some sort of ringing outside the building. "What the hell?" he thought as he climbed down from his bed and walked outside.

As he walked closer to the door, the ringing got louder. So loud, that N felt he had to plug his ears to save his hearing.

As he opened the door and looked up into the sky, he saw something he'd only read in history books and magazines.

A UFO..

"No.. No way" N smiled at the oval shaped blinking object in the sky. That's when he realized that he must take a picture of it. "But I don't have a good camera.." he thought, not being able to tear his gaze away from the object in the sky..

But Leo does. 

"Better make this quick" N thought one more time and ran back inside. N swung the doors open and ran to Leo's bunk, trying hard not to wake Hongbin up. 

Leo tossed and turned as he heard in his sleep someone goes through his belongings. He sprung up from bed and saw N at the foot of his bed, looking through his bag. "Hakyeon! Get out of my stuff!" Leo whispered and pulled N's hands away.

"I need your camera!" N said back

"What for?" Leo asked, rubbing his eyes. When N finally found his expensive camera, he inched towards the door. "Come with me" N urged Leo to leave his bed and follow him outside. Leo rolled his eyes and walked out of the building in his PJ's with N

"Look" N smiled and pointed to the sky. Leo looked up and saw the object that N believed to be a UFO. At first, N thought Leo would roll his eyes and tell him it was probably just something else. 

But the object in the sky, was nothing Leo had ever seen before. 

As N snapped picture after picture, Leo gazed into the night sky and looked around at all the stars. A small smile grew on his face. "Take pictures of the stars too" Leo said. N obeyed him and spun around the take pictures of the sky and stars. 

"This camera is amazing. Thanks for letting me borrow it" N smiled and put the camera in Leo's hands without looking anywhere but the sky. "No problem" Leo said. And before they knew it,

the UFO had disappeared.

And all that remained were the stars...

Space Camp had been built far into the middle of nowhere, far away from Seoul's city lights. So at night, many more stars could be seen and students were encouraged to sit outside to watch the stars

Leo and N sat down on the ground and stargazed together

"Wonder what's out there.." Leo smiled as he identified all the constellations that he had memorized. "Someday, we'll find out" N responded. Neither boys could tear their gazes away from the night sky. Not even for a moment.

Then, Leo saw a shooting star.. "N! A shooting star!" Leo gasped

"Where?" N scooted closer to Leo and looked his direction. "It was over yonder" Leo giggled and pointed to where he saw the shooting star

".... Well, what are you waiting for? Make a wish Taekwoonie" N took a second to look at Leo and said

"I don't have a wish.. Not one that'll come true.."

"It doesn't matter if it'll come true.. Make the wish!" N urged Leo, who just stayed silent..

"Hurry!" N nudged him

"Okay okay" Leo said. "I wish we could go to space.. All seven of us.. You, me, Ravi, Hongbin, Ken, Hyuk, and Ridley noona" Leo finally made his wish.. N smiled and nodded, satisfied with his friend's wish. 

N and Leo started seeing the sunrise in the distance and decided to go back inside and get more sleep.