Mutta, who is unsure about whether he should take the astronaut exam, visits an old astronomy friend named Sharon Kaneko, who encourages him to go for it. Mutta takes the first exam and manages to successfully pass. As Mutta becomes a bit concerned when he is distracted by a loose screw on his chair during the interviews for the second exam, he makes friends with another applicant, Kenji Makabe, whilst gaining a crush on a female applicant, Serika Itou. Meanwhile, behind doors, the interviewer reveals that he fiddled with the chair on purpose to see who would notice, with Mutta, Kenji and Serika allegedly being the only ones who did.