Oliver's Apollo Adventure

5…4...3...2...1 BLAST OFF!!!!!!!!! My heart lifted and I felt heavy,I Richard Nelson had just left New york city, NASA University to take a trip to the moon. Miles were set ahead of us as we exited the atmosphere. I began to float and everything else started to float as well. My best friend Paul cropper was on the spacecraft with me and we were both nervous of the journey to come. It was the end of the night when we had to go to sleep and when i tried to brush my teeth the toothpaste and water floated away. Paul laughed at me because apparently you weren't supposed to brush whilst in space. As I hopped into my stretcher I noticed I had a window next to me. The universe looked like all the good things mixed together but better. And earth… Holy moly it was tiny, it was the same size as an ant as we went further and further away. It felt like i was going to fall when I looked down from the window. 

Finally I drifted off to sleep and dreamt of the journey ahead. I awoke with an alerting start. We were all called into the (living area) to be told the exciting news…” Ok everybody said the captain, here’s the news… we are only 1 mile away from the moon and we are all going to have turns to go up the front window and take a look.” Yay we all cheered, and soon we were all lining up to have a look at the close up moon. It was a spectacular sight and soon we would be landing. The captain told us to put on our astronaut gear because it takes a long time to put everything on. After I had put everything on including my oxygen tank I was told that we were landing. Again we counted down 5…4...3...2...1… LAND!!!! 

(Booofff) went the bottom of the ship as we hit the moon's surface. Fortunately we had to all go in groups of three so I went with Paul and another Astronaut. We were the second group to be let out so we all checked our masks and oxygen. The dune buggy was already on the moon with the other group so we waited for them to come off the moon before we went on. They came off and…, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I flew and flew and flew. It was the most decadent feeling ever. But then something happened, I heard a crack and creak and before I knew it, the rocket collapsed and fell on top of me… I was blacked out and shocked as I looked around to see if Paul was there… He was not there I desperately called through my radio in my mask “ Maday Maday Is there anyone there MAYDAY!” Suddenly I found a hand stick up from under the rocket’s nose… It was Paul. I pulled the hand as hard as I could to try and Drag his body out from the under the rocket. (Plop) I dragged him out and pulled him onto my shoulder. “Are you OK” I cried desperately into my microphone?. “Yeah kind of… where are we” said Paul?. “We are on the moon and we need to get out of here fast or we will start suffocating”I cried suddenly feeling vulnerable. 

We sat for sometime feeling helpless, frightened and shocked,we watched as our rocket ship began to tear and break apart.We could see no other survivors and i began to feel very homesick.Paul had been injured and was beginning to lose consciousness I think he may of had some internal bleeding but I couldn’t help him without taking his mask off. Soon I was going to be all by myself on the moon my oxygen wasn’t going to last long and I had no chance of getting back home unless something surreal happened. I looked at my oxygen meter and saw it was going down 

Quickly I said a prayer and closed my eyes. “ MORNING, TIME FOR SCHOOL!” I opened my eyes and I was in my bedroom in my bed all snuggled up to my duvet in Pukekohe. “WHAT!” I said. It had been a dream, and thanks to that dream I no longer want to be an Astronaut when I grew up. I’ll be content to look at the moon through a telescope