Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Out of the Galaxy: Part 2 of Walking on the Moon
Out of the Galaxy
Part 2 of Walking on the Moon
After dinner at his mom’s house, Willie went home… an astronaut!
Willie woke up the next morning with an idea. An idea so great, it would put him and all the other astronauts to shame! He wrote his idea down on a blueprint and headed off to NASA. The man who helped Willie with the rocket, Jerry Parker, approached him.
“Why, if it isn’t Moon Walking Willie,” he said. “Weren’t you just here yesterday in your spaceship?” he joked. “Why are you back?” Willie handed Jerry the blueprint of his idea.
“You want to go out of the galaxy!?” Jerry asked surprised.
“Yes, sir, I do.”
“Well, the design of the rocket looks pretty good,” he grinned at Willie. “You know Willie? You’re pretty smart; none of our guys here at NASA could design something like this. Come back in three months and we should have the money and supplies you need.”
Willie couldn’t believe that NASA would already start on a project only three months after he walked on the moon. Willie’s goal is to go into outer space twice in one year; so he told NASA that they need to build his rocket fast.
Again, Willie was at his Mom’s house. Ding-Dong! His mom opened the door.
“Holy cow, Willie!” his mom screamed in surprise. “You have not been at my house this consistently in years!”
“Mom, I’m going out of our Galaxy.”
“What! You can’t! I won’t let you.”
“What! Why?”
“People have had trouble just by going into space,” she paused, “Including you. Now you want to leave our galaxy!”
“Don’t worry, Mom, I’ll be fine.” Then he left.
Finally, the long three months passed. Willie and Jerry met near the large pile of supplies. The date is, September 1, 2000. NASA and Willie would have to build a super advanced rocket that goes out of the Milky Way in a little less than four months to complete Willie’s goal -- to go to space two times in one year.
Time passed and they were now in November. Luckily, the rocket was almost done. Right now they are working on putting a camera onto a pole attached to the ship. It could not create too much weight. Willie was on a fifty foot ladder that went to the top of his ship. He was attaching the pole onto the rocket.
“Jerry!” Willie yelled. “Could you hand me the screwdriver?”
“You’re going to have to come down and get it yourself, I’m busy.” Willie sighed and started to climb down the ladder. As he approached the first step under him, he tripped. He had forgotten that he had tied his shoelaces to the ladder so he wouldn’t fall. He swung forward and smacked his head on the step of the ladder.
“Willie!” Jerry screamed. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. I just have a huge headache.” Willie pulled himself up straight and untied the shoelace from the ladder. He started to walk down again. Slip! Willie forgot to tie his shoes and he slipped on his lace. Down, down, down, down, he went and onto the hard concrete floor. Jerry ran over to where Willie was.
“There’s no way he survived a fifty foot drop.” After he said that, Willie opened his eyes.
“Willie, how did you survive?” Jerry asked.
“I’m flying this mission,” Willie demanded. He got up limping and started to climb up the ladder.
“Willie,” Jerry stopped him. “I know you want to reach your goal but it’s not safe to be injured in space.”
“I’m not injured!”
After building and building, it was time. December 14, 2000, and Willie was inside his spaceship. The name of Willie’s ship was written on the side of it: “Super Hydro Monster.” Willie did not know what it meant; he just thought it sounded like a science name. The camera was set, the engines were hot, (all sixteen of them), and the citizens of America had their televisions on. Finally, NASA started the countdown; 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1… Lift Off! The rocket was shaking, Willie was scared, and the ship… reached space.
“Hello stars, I’m back,” he said. To get up to space, he only used three engines, now he turned on the other thirteen. Willie’s thermometer said he was going four hundred miles per hour. His speed and his altitude kept on increasing! One thousand miles per hour!
“WooHoo! I’m going fast!” Willie screamed. Willie just thought of something.
“What’s going to happen when I leave the galaxy? Will my ship heat up with fire like when it leaves the Earth’s atmosphere?” Suddenly, Willie got really scared of what was about to happen. After a couple of hours, the ship started to jerk. At one thousand miles per hour, the ship started to shake like a bucking bull.
“Come on!” Willie screamed. “Is that all you got?!” Next, the jerking stopped. Willie thought that he had made it so he turned off all of his engines. Willie turned the Super Hydro Monster into auto pilot. He floated to the back window and saw something that dazzled his eyes. He saw… the Milky Way Galaxy. Willie fainted. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He heard some bangs on the roof of his ship. Willie got a rope, tied it to himself, opened the latch above him, and tied the other end of the rope to a little handle he put on his ship for this reason. Willie started to float up until the rope was all the way stretched out. He did not see anything on top of his roof. He decided to stay up just in case. Out of the corner of his eye, Willie saw something green. He whirled around… but saw nothing. Willie stared and stared in the same spot. The green thing was back in sight. He could only see a little of it though. The thought of an alien came to Willie’s mind. Willie’s mother always told him that aliens weren’t real. Expecting to see a huge, giant, hideous alien… a little green blob appeared on the roof. Willie could now see the entire green thing now. The blob was about as round as a soccer ball, but flat. He was all gooey like snot. The blob slid over to Willie and started to sniff his foot. The blob then squealed a hideous loud sound that hurt Willie’s ears; then it jumped off of the ship and floated off into the distance.
“Whatever,” Willie thought. As Willie was looking around, he saw a giant rock the size of a large in-ground swimming pool coming at him.
“Whoa!” Willie screamed. He got himself inside of his ship and turned off auto cruise.
There were no satellites near his camera so no one could see what was going on. He also didn’t have contact with NASA.
“That’s enough sightseeing for me!” Willie yelled. He swerved his ship to the left but the rock hit the side of it. The ship started to spin like a tornado. Luckily, Willie was able to get back into control of the ship. Willie blasted his engines and entered the Milky Way Galaxy going one thousand miles per hour. After a while, he saw Earth. He entered the atmosphere going way too fast, for he turned off his engines too late. Now, he was out of the atmosphere and entered the Earth’s sky. Willie yanked back on his steering stick but it wasn’t pulling the ship up. Straight, straight, down he went with no control at all. The point of his ship dug straight down into the Earth’s hard rock. Half of Willie’s ship was in the ground, and half was sticking up. Willie climbed up the spaceship as best as he could. He opened the back latch, looked up, and yelled excitedly when he saw that he luckily landed at NASA. After a bunch of pats on his back and cheering, Jerry came up to him not happy at all.
“Willie,” he said. “You passed your goal. You took off in 2000, but you landed in 2004.”
“I was up there for four years! Time really flew. Why are you so upset?”
“Your mother was very worried and had a heart attack. She didn’t make it.” Willie stood there very shocked. He just walked to his car and drove home. Willie had quite a journey. He decided to retire from being an astronaut. Also, he retired from his job. He earned one billion dollars for doing two missions. It was sad that his mother died, but at least he made her proud.
“If you have the motivation to do it son, I’m sure you’ll be walking on the moon just like old Neil.”
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