Among the Stars
This short story is inspired by the Starlight Prompts, particularly the phrase “starlight”.
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Silence. He hadn’t realised just how peaceful things could be. It always seemed like they would be standing on Earth, his feet firmly planted on the ground, looking up at the night sky. The moon, fat and silver, seemed so distant. The stars looked minuscule and so few. As a child, he’d always dreamed about going to space and being an astronaut. Much like every child at one time or another.
Disembarking the bus and walking towards the launch gantry, he couldn’t help but be struck by the beauty of the Saturn V. The sleek white rocket stretched for the sky it would soon race through. The launch facility was a hive of frenetic activity and noise as readouts were cross-checked, final preparations made and the launch sequence given the go-ahead. If he thought that was noisy, none of it compared to the noise of five F-1 rocket engines guzzling their way through twenty tons of liquid fuel per second just to get us off the ground.
In the command module, it was constant radio comms with ground control even after we drifted towards the moon, beeps and sounds from the…
