Getting Outer Space is a story about Neil Henderson, a twenty something insurance salesman who after 6 years in another town, with another job, and the start of another family, decides to return home to his family estate to reconcile his past. Upon returning, Neil finds his family in pieces, with his step-mother dead and his younger step-brother, Travis, alone for Christmas. Neil spends the holidays with Travis, and the two decide to rebuild their inventor father's old spaceship as a means of coping and reconnecting. Getting Outer Space is a coming of age story that explores the boundaries between childhood expectations and adult reality.