When I first heard about the idea of sending a ship to explore the cosmos beyond our Milky Way,I thought 'Wow,what a great job that would be!. And of course the space tech's were lined up 10 deep.After about a year,an ad came out saying they were still looking for crew. I think my friends were getting pretty bored of me talking about how great it would be,how I wish I'd have got the education needed for such a trip.Well' finally one of them said ' why not apply,who knows,Ya,like I have a chance.Still I could always say I applied. So I got a ride out to the spaceport,and filled out an application,man' there were some strange questions on that form. I copied some down, (1) Do you believe in Aliens? (22) Are you a scifi fan? (31) Do you think UFO's have visited our world? (84) Do you think our space program is antiquated? And the last one of 100.... Would you sign on for a one-way trip? I answered YES to all of them. Hey' I wasn't going to get hired anyway,and those were about the only questions I could answer truthfully!. So here we are 5 years later,somewhere beyond the Milky Way. Ya, I got hired as photographer/historian, 'blew me away'. So much to see and record,and with the advanced Cryogenics we have,lots of time.We just go where the solar winds take us. You might ask ' will we make it back' hell no,at least I hope not.I'm living my dreams every single day I'm awake. We haven't met the Borg yet,I was hoping for 7 of 9,but I'm sure we'll meet up with the "Enterprise".Maybe even "Voyager" in the Gamma Quadrant. And lastly,the really good thing about the crew......we're all scifi nuts, all 2500 of us.