One day, a millennial tells his friend Steve Wong that an object thrown fast enough into the sky would loop around the Moon and return to Earth like a boomerang. Steve, his coworker MDash, and the protagonist's girlfriend Anna become interested in testing out this hypothesis. They decide on a date on which they'll set off to boomerang around the moon. Steve, MDash, Anna, and the protagonist all collaborate on different parts of their space vehicle, which they call Alan Bean, after one of the men that stepped foot on the moon. They get the vessel ready and soon, they set off. The trip goes swimmingly. They take many iPhone pictures, consult their iPad apps to track their location and the various space objects they see, and play tableless ping pong. They boomerang around the Moon, land in the sea near Hawai'i, and are fished out by nearby tourists. At the buffet, a woman asks the man if he came from that giant thing that landed in the water. He says yes, and he tells her that it's named the Alan Bean. She says, "Who?"