An spatial free time activity became something more

Since I graduated in Aerospace Engineering I have been a little bit bored, so I started to pick up some free times activities and hobbies related to my career, until this day, in which I finally finished my own space rocket. I have spent 3 years just for the design and after several years of work, today 9/18/2042 I can finally make official the A750xNASA Quantum I, which I personally designed and built with the help of the NASA.


Logbook 1, 4 years later, the Moon

It has been a truly unique experience to have the opportunity to travel to space, my 2 closest buddies plus 3 NASA workers and myself launched the rocket for the first time in 2/24/2046, we were extremely nervous at that moment because we knew that anything could go wrong, thank God we safely arrived to the Moon, our first stop, I cannot really tell how much time we spent there, the views, the sensation of being there for the first time, we were still nervous, however it was an strange feeling, it is something that cannot be described by words, it is something spatial.
After we had done everything we had to do, we headed back to our vehicle.


Logbook 2, 20 years later, Mars

168 solar days of space navigation, here we are, Mars. That strange feeling is coming back at me, stronger than last time, the gravity is very different, I feel heavier and we are quickly starting to get tired.
We stayed in Mars the last years of our space trip, days and weeks and months of investigation and we have only got 1 conclusion, there is nothing here besides the dangerous sandstorms and miles of sand and rock, so we decide to go home, we have been missing that for so long.


Logbook 3, Home

8/9/2066 is the day we arrived to the Earth, home, both going and returning was safer than expected, no celestial bodies were in our ways, and we barely had any turbulences.
Seems like time has passed a lot faster for earthlings than for us, I couldn't be there in the last moments of life of my mother, my father and her were everything I had left in this planet, I remember the last words I pronounced to her: "No mather what happens, you are the only thing that matters to me". I certainly knew that it could be the last time I saw her, but I still took the risk, 3 years later, my father passed out.
Until the day of my death, I will continue my work, my investigations and most importantly, I will transmit the legacy of my family, in the name of my mother, my father and everyone who supported me, to the next generations, "That is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" -Neil Armstrong.

                                                                                                             Alex Fu Sun