Flash Fiction - Leaving Earth
The purpose of the project "Leaving Earth" was to better understand kinematics in an applied form. We created short stories involving science such as rocket propulsion and planetary navigation. One of the requirements of the project were to create a rocket manifest sheet. In this sheet some of the things we included were the supplies going into the rocket, the amount of fuel, and also the heights, and distance and propulsion for the rocket to reach its destination. Through the completion of this project I was better able to actually understand basic kinematics by applying it to something fun and engaging. I think that also doing this opened my main and helped me gain new insights on space travel and the possibility of it in the near future.
Below you can read my flash fiction story and see some of the use of science throughout it.
Below you can read my flash fiction story and see some of the use of science throughout it.
M A R S
“Here we we are,” I said to myself. Finally! After 260 days jumping from one planet's orbit to another, we finally made it. 25 Americans, in one Earth day, were about to be the first people to ever step on Martian soil. “It looks more red up close,” I said with a little grin on my face. There’s probably more iron oxide than I thought. Everyone in the ship around me started preparing for the descent. But not as we practiced back at Earth. Everyone seems a little worried, I mean I'll be honest I wasn’t the most confident person, I was pretty nervous too. We were landing on a planet that had a gravity 38% less than that of Earth. While Earth’s gravity is 9.8m/s2, Mars’ gravity is 3.72m/s2 It didn’t feel real. As a matter of fact, although I was sitting in the same ship for the past 200 days it still felt like a dream. I just remembered, I completely forgot to introduce myself or why we are even coming to Mars in the first place.
Hi! My name is Lukas Lewa Mario Ozil Neuer Schweinsteiger. I am a scientist originally from Germany. When I heard that the US. Government was starting the Flex project, I decided to stop all my work and take a chance by moving to America. I dedicated 6 years of my life to this mission for training purpose and I wouldn't regret a single one.
Back on Earth things aren’t going so well, droughts are hitting the entire globe, carbon dioxide levels rise exponentially, nature is just giving in to everything negative going on. This is some classified information that I can get in trouble for sharing, but honestly no one up here gives a damn. Scientists hypothesised that Earth only has anywhere from 30 to 40 years before it stops becoming sustainable. This mission was staged as a research project, but as we neared the project’s focus seemed to be resettlement. On board the ship we have a total of 150,000 pounds of equipment, from food to games, to pop up houses, they even packed us some space guns, those are for if we meet extraterrestrial life or whatever I guess.
It was getting closer to landing from almost having one more full day to about 3 hours. The flight crew did the final checks on all the ship’s landing systems, while the scientists along with myself discussed landing procedures and calculations. We calculated all necessary variables for a successful landing, the height which was 50 km the gravity of mars, and the weight of our ship. We calculated the Kinetic Energy and Fuel required to land which were both, 57520500. Everything was going good and as soon as we got close we....
“Here we we are,” I said to myself. Finally! After 260 days jumping from one planet's orbit to another, we finally made it. 25 Americans, in one Earth day, were about to be the first people to ever step on Martian soil. “It looks more red up close,” I said with a little grin on my face. There’s probably more iron oxide than I thought. Everyone in the ship around me started preparing for the descent. But not as we practiced back at Earth. Everyone seems a little worried, I mean I'll be honest I wasn’t the most confident person, I was pretty nervous too. We were landing on a planet that had a gravity 38% less than that of Earth. While Earth’s gravity is 9.8m/s2, Mars’ gravity is 3.72m/s2 It didn’t feel real. As a matter of fact, although I was sitting in the same ship for the past 200 days it still felt like a dream. I just remembered, I completely forgot to introduce myself or why we are even coming to Mars in the first place.
Hi! My name is Lukas Lewa Mario Ozil Neuer Schweinsteiger. I am a scientist originally from Germany. When I heard that the US. Government was starting the Flex project, I decided to stop all my work and take a chance by moving to America. I dedicated 6 years of my life to this mission for training purpose and I wouldn't regret a single one.
Back on Earth things aren’t going so well, droughts are hitting the entire globe, carbon dioxide levels rise exponentially, nature is just giving in to everything negative going on. This is some classified information that I can get in trouble for sharing, but honestly no one up here gives a damn. Scientists hypothesised that Earth only has anywhere from 30 to 40 years before it stops becoming sustainable. This mission was staged as a research project, but as we neared the project’s focus seemed to be resettlement. On board the ship we have a total of 150,000 pounds of equipment, from food to games, to pop up houses, they even packed us some space guns, those are for if we meet extraterrestrial life or whatever I guess.
It was getting closer to landing from almost having one more full day to about 3 hours. The flight crew did the final checks on all the ship’s landing systems, while the scientists along with myself discussed landing procedures and calculations. We calculated all necessary variables for a successful landing, the height which was 50 km the gravity of mars, and the weight of our ship. We calculated the Kinetic Energy and Fuel required to land which were both, 57520500. Everything was going good and as soon as we got close we....