With only months left in their training, Asumi and those left in the Tokyo Space School?s first astronaut training class have a new and potentially defining task at hand. From the moment they enrolled, these teens were under the assumption that the future of space exploration would be at the hands of their generation. At least one of them would lead JAXA into the cosmos to revitalize a dying program. But in the nearly three years they have spent training their bodies and minds, science has almost caught up to them.