What do you do when your dad suddenly wants to be an astronaut and go to Mars for NASA? If he gets chosen (which you hope he won't) you have to move from your familiar Brooklyn neighborhood to Texas, of all places, and leave your best friend behind - as well as your budding journalism career. Cal (Calvin Junior) has a lot to come to terms with, and as if that weren't enough, there's StarWatch, who have turned the astronaut-families' lives into crappy TV drama.