History Literature / TheCassandraProject

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Cunningham announced NASA will be abolish after Morgan return from the moon.

* ShoutOut: Numerous. There is one on [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Enterprise]], Film/{{Casablanca}}, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]], many classical musicians, and even [[{{Literature/Twilight}} that infamous series]]!

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[note]] that would be July 20th, 2019[[/note]] and approximately sixty-one years after UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that was supposed to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first turn down the offer [[HeelFaceTurn but later accept it]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator]] Mary Gridley after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And thus the adventure begins!

* WhosLaughingNow/ SelfMadeMan: The same guy that publishes an underground porn magazine is now an anarchist billionaire who scammed a few [[AcceptableReligiousTargets Middle East]] governments for the lulz and is now kicking the U.S. government's ass.

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[note]] that would be July 20th, 2019[[/note]] and approximately sixty-one years after UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first turn down the offer [[HeelFaceTurn but later accept it]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator]] Mary Gridley after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And thus the adventure begins!

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: So, in the end of TheNewTens, we are suppose to have (with most on its way to real life):

*** SocietyMarchesOn: Lori resigned from the Obama Administration, and her [[LittleMissSnarker true opinion]] about NASA isn't positive.

** TheWarOnTerror got more intense, with chaos spread to other parts of Africa.

* CluelessAesop: The WarIsHell anvil was dropped in the last few chapters of the book.

The Cassandra Project is an[[SameStoryDifferentNames (other)]] AncientAstronauts book by Creator/JackMcDevitt and Creator/MikeResnick, based on a short story of the same name written in 2010.

* ShoutOut: Numerous. There is one on [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Enterprise]], {{Casablanca}}, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]], many classical musicians, and even [[{{Literature/Twilight}} that infamous series]]!

** [[BarackObama Obama]] getting a second term [[note]]the book was published in November 6, 2012, however, it is already very obvious Obama would get another term.[[/note]]and replace Charlie Bolden with an yes-man named Stephen Goldman.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jerry have to take a job in a publishing company since he ran out of money after he ragequit PAO. He did some editing, found an amusing manuscript about the space program, only getting it turn down because it won't sell well, contrast to [[ShoutOut another horrible]] written paranormal romance series. He rage quitted again.