A Hope and Dreams

Subject: Congratulations on the Hard Work To All GAIA Shuttle Development Staff, As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the launch was a resounding success. We wish to thank you so much for all the effort and extra time you’ve put into this project. Four months ago, we were theorizing about where we would launch our next deep space satellite, and today we find ourselves launching a manned shuttle to Pluto with the intention of making contact with whatever lifeforms sent out the radio signal that we received. This goal was only able to be achieved thanks to countless overtime hours, thousands of coffee cups and back of the napkin calculations, and, most importantly, you. We hope that you’re as proud as we are with what we’ve done together, and will keep you updated as events unfold. Thank you for all your hard work, Astrid Rose (she/her), Head of GAIA Space Program ---- Subject: Weekly Meeting Notes To All Mission Control Staff, The following is a quick summary of all the major points discuss...

PART 1, THE INFOMERCIAL  Hi there, I’m John Johnson, and I’m here to tell you about our incredible new deals on Household Assistant Robotic Devices, or HARDs for short. The HARD is more advanced than any of the previous generations of robotic assistants produced by First Learning Automated Managerial and Industrial Networking GO (FLAMINGO), with the software and hardware bugs from previous generations cleared out. And this incredible new innovation is going for just $499.99! [large text showing the price in bright yellow font flashes on screen] Show all your friends your HARD and you'll be the talk of the town! Your HARD has specifically been designed to easily complete household tasks, so that no family will ever have to fight over who’s turn it is to take out the trash again [footage of family arguing over the dinner table fades into footage of a happy nuclear family]. Just one HARD is enough to clean up your house all on its own, and is so unobtrusive that you’ll never even know...