THE CONESTOGA COMPACT: A COMPOSITE BIOGRAPHY OF ADAM THORNE
Publisher: Authors Hike
Published: July 7, 2024
Description: David Jacobic is a retired healthcare worker from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been a NASA and spaceflight enthusiast since first viewing Gemini missions on his black-and-white television in the mid-1960s as a kindergarten student. Now that he is retired, he continues to follow all developments regarding spaceflight and astronomy and tries to envision how spaceflight may evolve in the coming years in a real and attainable way.


In the latter half of the twenty-first century, a high-school student from Las Cruces, New Mexico, named Frances Thorne, lands a summer job as a custodian at Spaceport USA near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He is found to be a very bright young man and is given a progression of increasingly difficult jobs. Eventually, he was recommended for a scholarship to MIT to study aeronautical engineering by one of his supervisors, Nathaniel Floatingfeather, from the Mescalero Apache Nation. As a doctoral project, Frances designs a theoretical spacecraft that can both take off and land on a conventional runway while taking large amounts of cargo into orbit. Using this type of spacecraft, he founded the Uplift Aeronautics company, which became enormously profitable and made him a multi-billionaire. His son Adam is raised at the company complex alongside his father. When a fluke raises Adam to the company chairmanship, he seeks to expand the company’s interests to include research and development. How far this research may take him is an open question, but he is determined to take his dreams to their absolute limit. And his ideas about limits are much more expansive than anyone could ever expect.