Rocket Girls

Yukari Morita travels to the Solomon Islands to search for her missing father, only to receive an unexpected offer from a struggling space agency. Its rockets cannot carry the weight of a conventional astronaut, making the lightweight schoolgirl an unlikely answer to a persistent engineering problem.

Yukari enters a demanding world of training and testing while continuing her search for her family. Limited funding and dangerous launches turn the agency's ambition into a responsibility she can no longer regard from a distance. Reaching space will require more than fitting inside the capsule: she must learn to trust the engineers, face the risks, and discover what she can accomplish herself.