Shepard, Aldrin, Mattingly, Schmitt, Worden, Bean, and Swigert all share one thing in common: they have all been recruited for Equestria's new shuttle program. On the twentieth of May, in 9012, the Odyssey will be launched from the Celestia Space Center. It will spend exactly 168 hours in space before returning to the Luna Space Center, attempting the first ground landing… if all goes according to plan. It does not, however, and now seven ponies are stranded on the moon.