Ch. 1 Journey to a "New Earth" by Vincent

Journey to a “New Earth” (I)

The Start of the Journey

What a sunny afternoon! But the streets are crowded and there’re people everywhere. I turn on the television.

“A new group which is formed by excellent astronauts from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and Japan is going to do a task which is to go to a planet that is about two light-years away from Earth for there’s no more place and natural resources for human being to live on any more. The planet is very similar to earth and it is reported that there’re living things on the planet and it there’re many oceans as Earth. After this team do the task successfully, human being is going to move there together.

“This task is divided into several smaller tasks. First, 100 astronauts are going to the international space station and meet each other there and go to the new planet in a larger spaceship together to see whether it is suitable to live on it. Second, half of human being move there in a huge space craft and the others will do the same ten years later. Third, all the people have reached the new planet and they began to build buildings on it. Last, people will send many man-made satellites to make more space for people to live…”

“Oh, my god,” my friend Emmet complains loudly, “we’re going to leave for the new planet with other 98 astronauts tomorrow! I don’t want to leave my families!” I turned off the television as I told him that I have exactly the same feeling as his.

A day later…

“Ten, nine, eight, seven, five, four, three, two, one…” the whole rocket is trembling and I feel the weight putting onto my body is growing heavier and heavier. Just then, a noisy sound comes into our ears. “What’s that?” Emmet asks me, frowning. “No idea.” I answered, “I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with our craft.” And we soon forget it because we have arrived at the international space station.

Several space ships from different countries park just beside us. At the end of the station, is a huge space craft. It is about 500 meters long, 150 meters wide and 70meters tall. We soon enter into it.

An hour later, almost all the astronauts have arrived. Paul, a famous scientist who is the captain of this huge spaceship now is having a roll call. “Where’re the astronauts from South Africa?” Paul says to himself. “South Africa team! South Africa team! Does Anyone know where they are?” He shouted. Suddenly, Emmet and I remember something bad. “Oh, professor Paul,” I say to him in a sad voice, “maybe…”

(To be continued)

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