Space Mission
By
VIRGINIA
WILLIAMS, aged 10 Where am I? What happened? I’m in spaceship. I can hear the engine throbbing. I’m here zooming further away from my home. I found out that I’m going at the speed of 102,000km/h, 1 billion km
a year. It was getting very bumpy and flippy so I thought something’ was wrong. Just then slowly bounding jerkily to a halt, we had crashed on a faraway land. I looked around at the vast wasteland. It was weird, empty, bizarre planet. The planet was a
lonely, spooky world and very scary. - I found an alien there that nearly shot met with its ray-gun. But I got away. I saw some very big craters. But I didn’t find anyone like me. Lost, alone, scared, cold and breathless. I went back to my spaceship and sat there. What I was hoping
for was to find someone like me in the galaxy. , The spaceship sort of just drifted in space. The next planet I came upon seemed to have life on it. People came to greet me: “Hallo.” "Hallo.” Can I live here?” "Yes”! “Great!”
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Press, 14 October 1986, Page 10
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