The Journey to Mars

By: Sunny Chen

On April 14, 2024, there were three astronauts:

Edward, James and Jeff are ready to start the journey to
Mars. The Big Falcon Rocket, which will take them to
Mars, is sitting on the launch pad at pad 39A at the
Kennedy space center in Florida, USA. At 4:30 p.m., the
rocket lifted off the launch pad and it was on its journey
to Mars! 8 minutes into the flight, the astronauts can see
the Earth below, and was about to departure to Mars. 40
minutes into the flight, a tanker arrived to refuel the
spaceship. When the refueling is done, the astronauts
will set on a course to Mars. After 9 months of sleeping,
eating, resting, and showering, the astronauts finally
reached Mars. As they begin their descent on Mars, the
astronauts can get a good view of the surface below. As
they landed on Mars, they begin to colonize the planet
and building artificial domes that will protect them from
the radiation Mars gets exposed to. Every day the
astronauts grow crops, eat, sleep and rest. After 90 days
of colonizing Mars and finding new elements, it is now
time to head home. The crew returns to the spaceship
and presses the ascent or liftoff switch to blast off from
the Martian atmosphere. But when Edward pressed the
switch, the rocket won’t blast off. So, he told the other
two astronauts to see if there are any problems with the
engine compartment. They checked and checked, but
there was no evidence about the problem. So, they tried
to find any Martian dust stuck in the engines. And there
it is! The Martian dust had severely jammed engine no. 5.
so, the astronauts fix and cleaned engine no.5. And tried
to press the switch again. It worked! The spaceship
successfully lifted off the Martian surface and it was
about to head back to Earth. As the astronauts reached
Earth, the oxygen supplies almost ran out and they only
have 5 minutes before running completely out of oxygen.
The crew already knew that their oxygen was running out
and that the spaceship was about to crashes or explodes.
But get this: the crew managed to land the spaceship just
2 minutes before their oxygen supplies depleted. When
they land their spaceship, everyone cheered and
awarded them! It was a happy ending after all!