_Del_ said:
Let's hope one of the artists paints an enormous mutant star goat with scything teeth thousands of miles long.
Heh. As sad as it is that lib arts will get the glory on this flight, the fact is that it will be hard engineering that makes it happen, and steely eyed missile men will be the actual crew. And so it gives me the chuckles to imagine the ship heading off around the moon, a hundred onboard webcams sending back the live footage of the artists partying and the crew keeping the ship running, when the ship goes behind the moon and signal is lost. And a few minutes later the ship comes back around and regains contact... and the webcams have shown that all the artists have gone bugnuts. They saw the cosmic horror that lives on the lunar farside and they've lost their minds and are going all "Event Horizon" on each other.
And then the audience switch feeds to the *crew* cameras, and they're busy calmly running the ship and quickly donning their suits. They saw the same avatar of Azathoth squirming away on the moon, but being scientists and engineers, rather than going nuts their response was "Huh. Look at that."
And a moment later, when all the crew are suited up, they calmly open the door and flush the artists out into space so they'll stop trying to wreck the ship.