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[Story] [Science]
Problems, problems,problems
"Everyone suited up?" asked Mr. Cool. "Yes we
are," answered Mr. Odd. "Alright then, let's all go
to our spacecraft and get prepared for take off."
It was a beautiful day in Waimanalo with the early
morning sun shining so bright at the JSC (Jawaiian
Space Center). Approximately 1000 people awaiting
the JS to take off at around 8:00 am.
At 7:02 am Mr. Cool, Mr. Odd, Ms. Perfect, and
Mrs. Solution got on the Jawaiian Spacecraft after
saying good-bye to everyone and everyone wished
them luck and said their good-bye's. "It's time for
us to start our mission," said Ms. Perfect. "Yes
indeed. Are we all ready? Everything packed?" asked
Mr. cool. "Wait hold on. I forgot my good luck
charm!" said Mr. Odd. "Hurry up!" yelled Ms.
Perfect. When Mr. Odd returned, they all got into
their seats, buckled up, and said their short
prayers.
"5,4,3,2,1, take off!......" is what the crowd
shouted. The Jawaiian Spacecraft was on its way to
planet oobleck. " Push the LO button right now,"
ordered Mr. Cool, the captain. "The what button?"
"The lift off button," yelled the captain. Mr. Odd
still clueless of where this button was located
said, "Captain, I still can't find it." Ms. Perfect
made her way to the LO button and pushed it. "Mr.
Odd, you better know what to do on our mission or
else!" The spacecraft was now about 8 miles from
earth and just got through their first problem. Not
a very good sign. "Is everything set and ready to
go?" asked Mr. Cool. "Yes captain, we are looking
fine," answered Ms. Perfect.
The spacecraft was now traveling about 160 miles
per hour which later on would decrease to about 100
miles per hour. Ms. Perfect was stressed out
because they had a minor problem but was something
important to her. So she started yelling at
everyone because things didn't go perfectly. On the
other hand Mr. Cool was making some joke about the
LO button. Mr. Odd was in his own world looking out
of the window and observing space and the things
they passed. Like comets, asteroids, an the first
shooting stars he saw. Ms. Perfect was also making
sure that everything was perfect, in place, and
reading more about a successful space mission. Time
went by.
It was now 10:00 am the very next day and
something funny was happening to the JS. They were
going slower and bouncing all around in the
spacecraft. No one knew what was happening. "What
do we do?" asked Mr. Odd looking very scared and
clueless. "I really don't know," shouted Ms.
Perfect. " Well let's look through our
computer..... It says that all we need to do is
push the LX2077 button to fix the chain that has
broken in our engine," said Mrs. Solution. So Ms.
Perfect ran to the cockpit and searched for the
LX2077 and pushed it. The spacecraft picked up
speed and again started to travel more smoothly.
Mr. Cool accidentally pushed the RX77 button to
only find out that their small rockets shot out.
Ms. Perfect shouted at Mr. Cool, "What in the world
are you doing? You fool. We just lost one of our
rockets.""It was an accident. You coward. We still
have more rockets. And by the way, it isn't a very
big deal!" Mr. Cool exclaimed with attitude. The
two of them had a long argument until finally Mrs.
Solution came and told them that they sounded like
little kids.
Two days passed and everyone wasn't getting
along and also having many dramas. But right when
they were pretty close to oobleck planet, the
floaters weren't coming out and no one knew why. So
they got onto the computer once more to see if the
floaters were out. The computer said that the
floaters were out and everything was in good shape.
However, Ms. Perfect went to check if the floaters
were out and they weren't. So they started to have
another fuss because everyone was clueless. And if
the floaters didn't come out then they wold sink in
the oobleck or have to turn around and go back to
earth. They went to the cockpit and started to push
buttons that was to be used with the floaters. But
something else happened and the computer said,"This
spacecraft will blow up in 30 minutes."Now everyone
was even more frightened and angry at each other.
There was so much commotion in the spacecraft
because everyone was about to die.
15 minutes past and Mrs. Solution, as usual, had
figured out the problem. One of the wires had
broken which made the floaters not come out. So
they had to look for the NKP22 switch to fix the
wire. It took them quite awhile to find this switch
and the computer had six minutes left. Then finally
the floaters came out and they were one mile away
from the oobleck. The computer had stopped counting
at 35 seconds to go. Then they landed after having
many problems. But one last thing. They now had to
explore the oobleck. Oh no!
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