October 02, 2015
Chapter 3
It is already day 30 and I am struggling like no other. I am worried. I am basically like dead meat just decaying. How am I suppose to survive if I can't even get water to plant my seeds.
I spent most of my day just thinking and thinking. I thought of everything problem is that I need water. How can I get this water from Mars? I am literally screwed. There is no way around this.
After much thinking and stressing, I thought of an idea. The hab has oxygen and hydrogen which can be useful to me. I can use them to create my water. The only problem is by combining these two together, I can blow myself up. I don't remember exactly how dangerous this is because I basically slept through the class, but I know it's bad.
Because I had a difficult time recalling, I started to panic. I couldn't get my dumb brain to think back to how all this works together. Nethertheless, I also had no idea of how to even collect the hydrogen. I mean there has to be a way, but it just wasn't coming to be. That night, I stayed away thinking of all the ways I can even dream of collecting hydrogen.
Chapter 4
I came up with a plan. It wasn't easy, but I have managed. I will need to make some water by slowly releasing hydrazine. Yes I know, it sounds like a mission. It is. I then need to separate the hydrogen from the nitrogen. After I do that, I will have to burn the hydrogen. In doing so, I am hoping that it will slowly combine with the oxygen in the air to create water.
I know that this very dangerous, but I figured that it's my only choice. I'm pretty much dead anyway so I have to give this a try.
I decided to officially start my plan. I started to store the water in bags and a spacesuit as well. I figured that these two will appropriate because they will hold. If it works, it works. If not, at least I tried.
As the days were passing, I started to doubt my plan. It didn't seem to be working out. I just wanted to give up because there is only so much I can take. I'm not suitable for this. I can't be here right now.
Turns out that I miscalculated by a ton. Now I have extra hydrogen just floating around the Hab. This made me cry. I have just created my own bomb. I thought to myself this is how I die. I am a finished teen!
Chapter 5
I've been trying out this new thing where I can't panic. It's not that I don't want to, I just can't afford it. I need to stay focused if I want to live.
I know that I need to remove all of the oxygen from the Hab. By removing the oxygen, I will prevent an explosion from taking place.I will then slowly release the oxygen to burn off the hydrogen. But of course, there is a problem. If I remove oxygen. then my soil will start to die. I can't have my soil die, I need it.
I thought of ways that I can prevent this from happening. If I were to store the potatoes outside, I can then lower the temperature in the Hab. If the temperature in the Hab is low, I can be able to save the soil. Low temperature will put the soil back into hibernation.
Everything was going good for me, until it wasn't anymore. BOOM! Literally BOOM!. I have created a explosion. I could've sworn that I saw my eyes flash before my eyes. How am I not dead yet? I have messed up so many times that I don't even deserve to be breathing.
I knew why it exploded. I was realsion oxygen every time I took a breath. I needed the Hab to saty oxygen free, but because I don't think, I almost killed myself.
In the end, the hydrogen is gone. That's good for me. I still have to create water in a way, but at least this time I'll be more smart about it.
Chapter 6
NASA's Johnson Space Center, a director named Venkat Kapoor has just heard the news of my death. He basically collapsed because it is that tragic. He was joined by Teddy Sanders. Teddy didn't mind delivering a speech regarding me. He was kinda like a jerk. Anyways, Venkat was too busy prepping for the Ares 4 mission.
Venkrat wanted satellite images so he got them from Teddy. He wanted to find anything that was worth saving since the day. Teddy didn't necessarily agree to this, but because he's a man of the people, he had to. Teddy knows that he has to release all information to the public immediately after they receive it. He wasn't very excited about it because he didn't want anybody to see my body.
Later on in the day, a woman Mindy searched through the satellite images. She found something unordinary. She found clean solar panels. She thought to herself how there is no way that they can be clean like that.
Discovering the panels freaked everybody out. Some wanted to turn around and save me, while others were being a pain. They didn't want to believe that they had abandoned me.
The story came out, as it should be. My name went across headlines. Melanie left in space was said by everyone. I thought they would act right away, but they didn't. I wanted to be saved, but like I said earlier, their plan is Ares. 4 years from now seems like a mission.
Chapter 7
The days were passing. It's day 63 now. My water has been cooperating. My seeds are growing. I can honestly say, things have been well.
I still think of how Ares is my only way out of here. I can't bear to imagine even how long that will be. The number four is engraved in my head.
I need to make my perilous trip possible. By doing so, I need rovers. I r=took Rover 1's battery and I installed it in Rover 2. This should help, but it's not permanent. My other problem is that I am freezing. I cannot get enough heat to keep me warm. I try to put on as much clothes as I can, but there is no way around it.
I found the RTG. A RTG is very, very hot. It was buried, but I have 20/20 vision. I then got back to my rover project. It was very complicated. I was just putting ideas into my head. It was literally whatever popped in.
I ran my first test and it turned out to be a successful test. I got good results with this test. so I prepared for a even bigger one. I went back to the Hab just hoping.
