Rocket 1 (Dawn program)

Rocket #1 was one of the 50 rockets in the Dawn program, a United States space program to get humans on Cyprus. It was the first rocket launched from Earth, on 16 December 2074, and was also the first to land on Cyprus, on 26 January 2121 (17 Martary, C.Y. 0.) It landed in present-day Colony, at the site of the central rocket statue in the Arrival Plaza.

The rocket was piloted by captains Eddy Ballis, Maeve King, and Samuel Lewiston.

At the beginning of the voyage, as with all other Dawn program rockets, its population was 38; at the end of the voyage, its population was 29 due to older residents' mortality over the half-century long flight combined with a few births.

The few children in the rocket at any time attended a Dawn program-wide hybrid virtual and in-person school. Each rocket was mandated to have at least one person with educational experience.