A cryovolcanic eruption on Ceres traps an exploratory spacecraft named the Lunar Princess. A portion of the ship is now embedded under a discharge of frozen regolith. The launch window back to High Earth Orbit arrives in only five weeks. Can the crew free their ship in the time remaining? Or are they doomed to become permanent residents of Ceres?
Mike Combs is a life-long promoter of the space settlement concepts of Gerard O'Neill. He is retired from Texas Instruments and lives in Sherman, TX.