Space Exploration
Chapter 1:The Exciting News
Among many people there has always been the discussion that there might be life on other planets. No one really knew anything till that day at a meeting with the officials at NASA. A couple others and myself were brought into a room where we were told of a mission that we were about to be sent on. This mission to space was to be kept secret from the public until we thought the time was ready to tell anyone. Our mission was to take two advanced space shuttles into the outer regions of our solar system to a galaxy vary far off called andromeda we'll we were out there we were told to catalog and tape all that we saw. After the brief meeting, we were taken to another room in the back to briefed on the specifics of exactly what our mission was. As we went to the back I couldn't help feeling that this just didn't seem right. Why send us now, right after we just got back from Neptune and why not tell anyone about it. Hi my name General Timothy Carson, I'm a former general of the U.S army third infantry division, and now an astronaut at NASA working in their special division department. My job is to go on the dangerous and somewhat mysterious missions or as I like to call them, adventures. On many of my adventures I have encountered the most bizarre things that words can't even describe what I have seen. This new mission though has got me even more puzzled. We have found traces of life on the planets in our solar system, but none that weren't already extinct or already gone. My guess is that NASA wants to know more about the universe around us and to see what goes on that we don't see. We got the back room and sat down at a large table. The top-notch guy in this department was Matt Stevens. He was head of our special team, and on some occasions even a member on some of our previous missions. The meeting started. Matt looked around the room and said, "because of the traces of life on the planets in out galaxy it may be possible that the galaxy we named as andromeda may be an area for life to develop in, being it was out of our reach at the time. Now that our technology has advanced, we are able to go where we never thought possible. We'll on our mission we were told to take readings of many of the planets that we passed by to see a couple of things. One was to test the levels of chemicals and see if the planet was suitable for life and had enough oxygen to live from. The second was to actually descend down the planet to see if there was any sign of life. The third thing to do was once on the planet regardless of life or not we had to take samples of the planet for tests and other scientific stuff that I really didn't understand. After the briefing we were told to be ready to leave the next month, since they had to go under many tests and regulations. During the first two weeks we had to do several flight simulations to prepare us for the trip outside our own galaxy, not knowing what it would be like. After those two weeks were up we had the rest of them time to do whatever we wanted considering the amount of time that we would be gone.