The Final Frontier
“Space, the final frontier” The last unexplored territory left to the human race As if we have explored every other aspect Of the world beneath our feet But…
7. Cramped
*Space* is limited here in the box. It reminds me of the other boxes I left behind. The bullies’ spaces, after dying. Like this glass compartment, a viewing…
SPACE PILOT
Space hung like black infinity before Darren. As on every space walk, he gasped at the awesomeness of it. Behind him floated The Impetus, to which he was…
Personal Space Pilot
Space occupies my mind. I consider the distance between you and I. Leagues and years create an impassable chasm. Unable to find answers, my head is as good as…
Pilot
A pilot’s life doesn’t have many constants. It’s a lonely life; always flying from one place to another,but never stopping long enough to have real…
Human Factor
Reve sipped his coffee, quietly scanning the darkness ahead, as the engine carried on across barren wasteland. Just over 200kph and humming right along without…
The Ascent
The sun shone through the shades hanging from the window, laying streaks of light on the Captains face. He woke, rubbing the light from his eyes. It wasn’t…
Ambition's End
“When I grow up,” I told Grandfather, “I want to be a pilot, just like Slim Tyler.” I was ten and had just finished a very thick book by Richard Stone, called…
Prepping to Launch
So we’d been sent up to screw the bulb back in. A routine mission. But even now, two hundred years after Gagarin and Glen, nothing about space travel is ever…
Flying Fortunes
Everything was hazy, nebulous, ill-defined... But one thing was certain. She was here. She was alive. Everything seemed so delightfully mundane - a trip to the…
Falling Home
Reentry is a tricky thing at best. The Ph.D.s on the ground tell us that we’re always falling, in a manner of speaking. Way I look at it, orbiting the…