So taking a deep breath I pressed the button. There was a sudden swish behind us as a partition dropped down all around us encasing us in an airlock in front of the door marked, no.
We all were a little scared and excited as we watched the meter registering the atmosphere being sucked out of the airlock and then the door opened slowly to reveal the vast darkness of space lit with a million stars and at least two huge planets.
Standing in silence transfixed by the view we were rooted to the spot. Then we noticed the guide line stretching out in front of us. Inviting us to move forward, out towards the inky back sparkling horizon. Hesitantly we clipped ourselves on to the guide line and slowly floated out in to the vacuum.
The very first thing that we noticed was the silence, it was deafening! I said the alarms had been deafening when we hit the first button well it was nothing compared to this silence. I turned my head just in time to to see the door we had left by was closed. For the second time today I knew the only way was forward .
There we were the four of us for the first time in our lives outside that which we knew as home our whole world.Suddenly I felt alone and scared, two feelings I had never experienced before. Looking at the eyes of the others though their visors I could see they felt the very same.
To be continued …….
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