Oct 6, 2026 · 34 min · 14 segments
Embracing his new friends, Sam leans into his unearned fame and begins shamelessly duping a doting public—until his deception ends in disaster. Meanwhile, Sammy is mysteriously summoned to a covert…
I can't believe I am actually sitting here with you, Mr. Reid.
I'm really just a normal, average guy.
Normal, average people don't fly to other solar systems.
I
suppose that's true.
When did you know you were going to be an astronaut?
When I was real young, probably seven or eight, my daddy took me to a launch.
The Avalon 3 mission to Europa.
The spectacle of it all just blew me away.
Those men and women in their spacesuits were like real-life superheroes going to conquer the unknown.
And those rockets, it was all rockets back then.
Watching them blast off and shoot into the heavens was just, well, words can't even describe it.
If he did, it was inadvertent.
My daddy never took me anywhere.
So imagine my surprise when he asked me if I wanted to go see a launch.
I was naive enough to think he wanted to spend some time with me.
What do you mean? I
was so obsessed with space, it's all I ever talked about.
How I wanted to be an astronaut.
He finally got so sick of it, he took me to a launch to teach me a lesson.
What kind of lesson?
He wanted to show me what a waste space exploration was.
As I marveled at the glow of the exhaust plumes spooned from them rockets in the black sky, he proceeded to tell me that the cost of the fuel alone was more money than the value of everything he ever owned put together.
I can't believe I am actually sitting here with you, Mr. Reid.
I'm really just a normal, average guy.
Normal, average people don't fly to other solar systems.
I
suppose that's true.
When did you know you were going to be an astronaut?
When I was real young, probably seven or eight, my daddy took me to a launch.
The Avalon 3 mission to Europa.
The spectacle of it all just blew me away.
Those men and women in their spacesuits were like real-life superheroes going to conquer the unknown.
And those rockets, it was all rockets back then.
Watching them blast off and shoot into the heavens was just, well, words can't even describe it.
If he did, it was inadvertent.
My daddy never took me anywhere.
So imagine my surprise when he asked me if I wanted to go see a launch.
I was naive enough to think he wanted to spend some time with me.
What do you mean? I
was so obsessed with space, it's all I ever talked about.
How I wanted to be an astronaut.
He finally got so sick of it, he took me to a launch to teach me a lesson.
What kind of lesson?
He wanted to show me what a waste space exploration was.
As I marveled at the glow of the exhaust plumes spooned from them rockets in the black sky, he proceeded to tell me that the cost of the fuel alone was more money than the value of everything he ever owned put together.
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