Emergency Maintenance Check Issued 007

“Today you will be trying to stop the Titanic from sinking. The engine has been flooded with water, so you have to activate the backup engine to keep the ship afloat until a rescue ship can come. Have fun in the rooms!” finished the monotone voice after explaining the instructions.

This activity is about the main events in New Horizon’s journey to Pluto and beyond.

I cry once more like the feeling changes, and a wet, slightly prickly thing starts being pressed along my skin, lifting the sinewy muscle as the item pulls away from me. I feel the wet feeling continue, cooling me down as a cool breeze enters my sanctuary. As the breeze continues to slip into my barricade of warmth and comfort, I can smell something different to the scent I have unknowingly been surrounded by for quite some time. The aroma I now smell is pleasant, making the previous one duller.

I felt the wind steak across my face. I allowed my hips to follow the rocking movement of his canter. My mind was zoned into what I was doing.

You know the sound of an object cutting through the blaring wind? It is a comforting sound, the constant, swirling motion enveloping you completely. Your mind becomes fuzzy, almost to the point of drifting to sleep. That is when you feel your stomach fall out of place, only to catch up with you again when you pump your legs vigorously.

The dark vastness which is outer space. An interstellar spacecraft hurtling through. On the side of the hull in very large letters is IPNH HORUS AA- 5145262522. It is an Interstellar ISIS Class Scientific Expedition Type vessel. She has 5,627 crew members It has been traveling for a very long time. Its mission to seek out, discover and investigate a new home planet that can sustain life. They have been searching for such a planet, which can enable their civilization, to begin anew. Their new home must have water, breathable air, animal life and vegetation. The Computers have located and discarded for a wide array of reasons 5,118,207 planets on this journey. The planet they are heading towards now will be # 5,118,208. This is it, whether or not the planet is viable is irrelevant. If it is not, they all die. The ship that brought them is unable to continue. There is no fuel to even lift off after landing. Never mind traveling through space.

Despite the relatively miniscule amount of time that humans have been able to send satellites, probes and landers out of our own planetary body, we as a race have achieved previously unfathomable amounts of progress in the field of space exploration. From the first Lunar mission in 1969, to the very recent observations of Pluto, Humans have been, and still are, working around the clock to find some insight into the mysteries of our Universe.

High above our beloved watery globe, on the shore of the cosmic ocean, a winged spacecraft approaches a gigantesque space station pirouetting in the vast dark. The pilots of this vessel make use of flat-screen computer displays to match their rotation with that of the massive orbital outpost. As the shuttle spins, a logo of the world's largest airline, emblazoned on its side, comes into view.

The desire to explore and further understand space, especially the neighborhood that is our solar system, is a dream many of us have when we are younger that persists for some throughout their life. Project Galileo aimed to do just that, but met with many complications and obstructions. However, through cleverness, determination, and teamwork, these challenges were dealt with and the mission was able to continue on.

As I sat aimlessly rubbing my hands together, the walls trembled; taking in air sharply when I hear the reverberation. The sweat on my forehead drips off like an IV bag at the hospital.

Tremendous amounts of wind blow against my head. I feel like I’m showering and letting cold water fall onto my face. I let out a quick, shrill scream. I am flying! I say to myself. Wooo! I am terrified and ecstatic at the same time. The feeling is truly priceless.

Walking down the busy filled street. I felt myself putting my head down as people continued to walk in the opposite direction. Frosty air breathes against my flushed cheeks. Its whimsy arms

From the age of the Greek explorer Pytheas, to the ages Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, exploration of the unknown has been a major part of human history. Mankind has always had an irrepressible impulse to venture into the worlds that are foreign to it. Humanity has come to the point though, where the only place left to explore is outer-space. This “final frontier” has a vast amount of things to discover which could become invaluable towards solving problems here on earth. As a leader in the field, it is of great importance that the United States government continues supporting space exploration. However, the mission to outer-space has a cost which many people believe is too high for the benefits that would come from it. It is imperative that in this final chapter of discovery, every risk and expense is taken into account.

The dark expanse, which is outer space. An interstellar spacecraft hurtling through. On the side of the hull in very large letters is IPNH HORUS AA- 5145262522. It is an Interstellar ISIS Class Scientific Expedition Type vessel. She has 5,627 personnel on board, all in hyper-sleep, a kind of cryogenic suspended hibernation medically induced coma They have been traveling for a very long time, nearly two hundred and fifty some odd years. Its mission to seek out, discover and investigate a new home planet capable of sustaining life. The Horus, along with her menagerie of refugees, have been searching for such a place, in what has been seemingly an exercise in utter futility, which will enable their civilization, to begin anew. Their new home must have water, breathable air, animal life and vegetation. The Computers have located and discarded for a wide variety of reasons 5,118,207 planets on this journey. The planet they are heading towards now will be # 5,118,208. Consequently, however, this will be their first, last, and only shot at it. Whether or not this macrocosm is viable is irrelevant, if this turns out not to be feasible, they all will surely die. The ship that brought them is unable to continue. There is no fuel to even lift off after landing. Never mind propel it through space. Therefore, they must, against any and all odds, make this work.

For thousands of years humanity has looked to the stars and felt a deep passion to investigate what secrets lie in the darkness. There is a lot that scientists know about space, however there is much more that is not known to the human race. NASA, the number one space program of the USA, lacks the funds to further investigate the ultimate frontier. Throughout humanity’s exploration of space, many dangers have been discovered that lurk within the dark vastness of space. Things like radiation and extreme temperatures threaten astronauts’ lives when performing extensive space travel missions, leading to primary reliance on probes and rovers to explore what lies beyond. NASA and other space programs are majorly underfunded and the general