A man who crashed out of his dream is now chasing it again, but the show refuses to make that inspirational. Mutta's path to NASA is mundane, repetitive, sometimes frustrating. That's what makes it real. You watch him fail small exams, second-guess himself in waiting rooms, get rejected and apply again anyway, and somewhere around episode 40 you realize you're not watching a story about becoming an astronaut. You're watching someone actually become one. The pacing drags in the middle stretch like real training does. By the finale, that slowness was the point. It wasn't about the rocket. It was about the man who learned to want something again without needing permission to want it.

Mutta Nanba has hit rock bottom. Fired from his car design job after standing up for his brother's honor, shut out of his profession, and living back with his parents, he watches his younger brother Hibito train as an astronaut and prepare to become the first Japanese man on the Moon. As boys in 2006, the two saw a strange flying object streak toward the Moon and vowed to go to space, with Mutta claiming Mars so the elder brother would stay ahead. Now, with some quiet help from family and friends, his application reaches JAXA's next astronaut selection. Despite his doubts, Mutta refuses to waste the chance, and the rest is up to him in this comedic, slice-of-life sci-fi story.