Lovelace's shuttle

Lovelace's Shuttle is an unnamed shuttle built by Captain Lovelace and her crew to escape the Hephaestus after Goddard Futuristics stopped contact with them.
Shuttle construction took the crew over a hundred days. One major obstacle was creating a power source for the shuttle, which was eventually solved when Dr. Fourier was able to repurpose one of the station's VX-3 nuclear engines for the shuttle. She disappeared shortly afterwards, causing Lovelace to suspect that Dr. Selberg was sabotaging their escape attempt. Lovelace attacked Selberg, and left in the shuttle alone. After setting a course back to Earth, she put herself into cryo-sleep. However, the shuttle likely suffered a malfunction which caused it to fall into Wolf 359.
Three years later, a perfect replica of Lovelace and her shuttle reappears near the Hephaestus and docks. The ship is significantly damaged, and Lovelace threatens to detonate a bomb attached to the nuclear power core unless the crew help her repair it. Shortly after they succeed, Wolf 359 suddenly changes into a blue dwarf, placing the station in peril due to increased gravitational pull. Eiffel uses the shuttle, still docked to the ship, to help stabilize the Hephaestus and move it away from the star. The extreme force breaks the shuttle loose, and puts some of its systems offline. When Lovelace's bomb explodes shortly afterwards, it blasts the shuttle further into deep space, out of range of the Hephaestus.
Eiffel survives on the shuttle for 193 days by using the cryo-sleep facilities to stretch out the limited rations and water available. He periodically sends out distress calls, in which he gives the shuttle a variety of names including U.S.S. Reliant Robin, U.S.S. Pontiac Aztek, U.S.S. Ford Excursion, U.S.S. Deathtrap, U.S.S. Piece of Crap and U.S.S. Horrible Unending Nightmare. Eventually he is rescued by the Urania under the command of Warren Kepler, leaving the shuttle abandoned in deep space.
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