Shortly after landing from her time in space, Mae was approached by a strange man wearing a number of wristwatches, all set to different times. He told her that the future of science was at stake and he needed her to travel back in time and help save science. As a fan of science and science fiction she decided to humor the man. He led her to a warehouse near the Kennedy space center, where he had built a ship. It wasn’t like any other device she had ever seen. It was a sphere, reflective and absorbing light at the same time, covered in antennae, and with no visible door. The man showed her how to open the door and when she stepped inside she was transported into the past.