TRANSMISSION
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December
24th – 2015
My name is
Maria Harrison, Captain of the Zubrin, and I am so bored.
Two months
in space today. Can you believe it? I’m sorry I haven’t written more, NASA, but
there’s really been nothing to say. It’s just… space, you know? And there’s an
awful lot of it out there.
Not in
here, though. I thought this ship was pretty big, but after two months stuck in
here it’s starting to feel pretty small. Who’d have thought I’d have run out of
space… in space?
…hehehe.
I’ve been
doing my stretches, promise, and keeping an eye on the instruments.
Everything’s working perfectly. There was a minor scare when the fuel gauge
suddenly dropped to empty, but it went back to half-full almost straight away,
so must have just been a glitch of some kind.
Mind, we
haven’t fired the rockets in about 6 weeks. NASA was explaining to me how in
order to save on fuel they simply accelerate to full speed, cut the engines,
and then I just coast all the way to Mars, until about two thirds of the way
there, when they start to apply the brakes.
Which,
since rockets don’t have… I don’t know, space wheels or something… means firing
the rockets in the other direction.
So they
burn a lot of fuel at the start of the trip, and the end of the trip, but none
in the middle, apart from the occasional course correction. Which is all really
fascinating!
However, I
am stuck in this space ship for another 16 months, so I don’t think it’s quite
enough fascinating to go round.
Also, it’s
Christmas tomorrow. Do I get a present NASA? I guess not. It’d be pretty hard
to get a present all the way out here.
I don’t
have a chimney for one thing.
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December
25th – 2015
I wish me
a Merry Christmas, I wish me a Merry Christmas…
Hmm, no.
So have
myself, a merry little Christmas…
No.
Darn it. There
really are no songs for Christmas on your own. How depressing. Guess I’d better
get used to it, though on the… ooh, there’s a message from NASA.
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“Cupboard
23?” What off Earth does that mean? Do we even have 23 cupboards?
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Oh my
goodness. Yes we do. It was hidden behind the spacesuit rack! Had to unbolt the
rack to get to it, remind me to fix that later, wouldn’t want it falling on me
or anything.
And
inside, there’s Christmas decorations!!! I love you, NASA.
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Place is
looking really festive now. I have streamers billowing in zero grav. I’m
wearing a Santa hat (or at least I would be if it didn’t keep floating off),
and while I understand they couldn’t get me a real tree, they included a poster
of a tree. And the nutritional paste… well, the nutritional paste is delicious.
What a
lovely way to spend Christmas Day. Thank you NASA!
December
26th – 2015
…Bored
again.
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