cS: Since you mentioned it, the book's chapters and the pacing of the story is based on one lunar cycle (from just after a new moon to a full moon and back). Did you have that idea from the start ...

This type of eclipse happens when Earth blocks the light from the sun that normally illuminates the moon ... back to Earth on a different spacecraft. The new version of Starship will be tested ...

It appears that might have happened again. At a post-landing news conference ... NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination ...