Take Off. This scene happens at the space station.

From a room with a panoramic window, NOA, HICHIROU and YUUMA watch the tiny pod with KEN inside being delivered by robots and attached as the head of the CHO spaceship. CHO has the shape of a butterfly. Two great wings made of solar power receptors, one tiny head which is the capsule with KEN.

Bellow CHO there are lots of pods, each with a observation/communication sattelite inside. The main objective of the mission is to spread those pods in a hub formation so to extende the reach of human observation and communications through outer space, relaying information to the most close pod in a way that there is no single way of relaying information and so, no single point of failure. This allows, for example, to place an Hubble-class observatory much farther from the solar system and have it realying the images through the other pods until planet Earth.

During the logistics of transporting and attaching KEN's capsule to the spaceship, in one monitor, the family and friend can see realtime KEN's face and vital signals. There is not that much to see. He is deeply asleep, breaths peacefully and slowly.

After the countdown ends, the CHO spaceship is launched at great speed out of the gravitational fields of the space station, Earth and Moon. The thrusters are released from the back of the ship, the two wings are totally spread open and the voyager starts is journey.

Each member has his own thoughts but no one dares to say a word. They just watch CHO smaller and smaller until they are no longer sure if what they see is CHO or a star or a distant planet. On the television, KEN is in perfect harmony in a dreamless world. As they prepare to leave in order to return back to Earth, HICHIROU places his and over the screen, as if it was possible to touch father. NOA tells him "Come along HICHIROU, father is asleep now", while turning her back a tear spoils the otherwise perfect painture around one of her eyes.

Later that day.

At the Space Station, YUUMA is by the window looking at CHO empty's space. With one hand at the Windows, he whispers "Good luck, my friend".

At KEN's house at Earth, NOA is finally laid in bed. Now, almost silently, huged to a pillow, she cries like a baby.