'Houston, this is Darlah 2. We have a problem'It was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. Mia, Andrei and Midori had different reasons to want to enter NASA's competition for a seat on the first shuttle to go back to the moon in over forty years.But while they all wanted to escape earth, they never realized there might not be a chance to come home. There was a reason we never went back to the moon.

Johan Harstad is a Norwegian young adult author. He won the 2008 prestigious Brage prize in the children's literature category for 172 Hours on the Moon.