The day I was waiting for

June 21st, 2009


Today is the day I will go to space. I had to wake up at 07:00 and then had to say goodbye to my lovely and adorable dog, then I had to drive for four hours till I got to the launching site, I arrived there at 11:00. then my launching manager, Jake Mays told me to go into a room which was on his left. I waited for a few minutes in the room and had some chocolate which was nicely laid out on a china plate. Then had a little nap on the chair.

"wake up" someone said, then the person shook me and then I came back to my senses and I realized that I was in the room with the chocolate and that I was at the launching site and that I was going to fix the Mars Exploration Rover-A. In about half an hour I was all dressed in my space suit, it was very itchy and I had to wear about six layers of clothes. I got very hot. we get about seven hours of oxygen and then we go to the space shuttle we go up a on a elevator, then we go on to a small bridge and cross it to get in to the shuttle.

when we were all comfortably in the shuttle then we put on our seat belts and got ready for lift off. one of my colleagues' seat belt didn't want to click and I heard him say " this seat belt is as stubborn as a mule." Then after a few minutes of struggling he finally he got it in and then we were ready for lift off. 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1 LIFT OFF! then I felt a huge push and we were blasted off in to space.