How original…
(yes I am running out of ideas btw) …you and a couple of astronauts are gonna send a probe outside of Earth’s sphere of influence with a space shuttle. However, you gotta go in the capsule attached to the probe and use it’s RCS to get as far out of the solar system as possible, risking leaving home when you’re out of the influence.
As you and the other astronauts get in Shuttle Orbital (which almost had the same fate as space shuttle Columbia), you start hyperventilating due to worry.
“Calm down, bro.” Houston tells you. Lately, most of Mission Control and some of the astronauts haven’t been treating you the best. But the good thing is that you’re going with a team of astronauts that you’re comfortable near, since you’ve been with them on different missions before.