June 28–July, 2020 NASA’s space shuttle Renaissance launches from Cape Canaveral to deliver the final payload and mission commander to the USS Lewis & Clark, a new long-range space vehicle for a mission to Saturn. The Renaissance was the first and only craft of a second-generation of shuttles, as the program was abbreviated due to a second global economic crisis. The same problems plagued the development and construction of the Lewis & Clark, and that project was barely completed. The craft featured a new impulse drive that made a trip between Earth and Saturn possible within 3 months. The Lewis & Clark’s mission bypassed Mars and Jupiter in favor of exploring Saturn, its unexplained hexagonal polar storm, its deteriorating ring system, and its moons, as well as a never-before seen comet t