Robert John Miller

I got this job mostly because I didn’t want it. The National Anarchist Space Administration, as an indefatigable champion of fairness in space exploration but also suspicious of the ulterior motives of people who volunteer to go on space missions, determined through committee that the best first person to send to Mars would be the person who least wanted to go. And that person was me. I tried to explain, over and again, that I could not go to Mars because I had to go to the grocery store on Tuesday mornings when it was the least busy.