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Show 1 I A O DDirami(ts The Park Record D Section B Thursday,March 25, 1993 D Page B9 THE GREAT SPACE SHIP DISCOVERY by Michael Nierenberg, Age 10 Chapter One Traveling to Mercury One day, I was testing out a paper airplane in my garage. It was a model of an experimental X-378 that I had purchased at the Kennedy Space Center while I was going to Space Camp. Suddenly, as it landed, it turned into a life-sized, no-experience-required, easy-to-use, one-man space shuttle. Wow!! Was I surprised! It looked exactly like the prototype of the X-378, a space craft that looks a little like the aero-space commercial line plane. I had noticed that when the space shuttle appeared, so did an instruction manual, which only consisted of one page and only had fifteen words, which stated, "This space ship is voice controlled. Say any command and it will perform the action." I decided to get inside the space shuttle. So, I simply said, "Open the door." The door opened. I walked up the stairs which had come down with the door. Once I had gotten inside, I took a seat and said, "Buckle seat belt" The seat belt buckled itself. After that, I finally noticed there were walls all around me, not one place I could see out, so I said, "Open visual screens.'' On every side of me, parts of the wall slid out of place, revealing windows-large windows. Then I said, "Count down, T-five seconds, four, three, two, one, ignition, blast off. Guidance systems all go for Mercury." Amazingly enough, I did not hear any noise, so I looked through one of the floor windows and I saw the entire earth going farther and farther away. Since I was traveling at the speed of light, thousands of miles per second, I got there in about half an hour, according to my Utah Jazz watch (which I got at a Jazz vs. Nuggets game). I stayed in the orbit of Mercury and then decided to explore the surface. I stated, "Interatmospheric travel ship." And then, a light panel, showing the words "OPEN THE AIRLOCK" appeared right in front of me. I got on my space suit, which was the standard space suit used by all astronauts. I went to the airlock and opened it up, but to my surprise, there was a vehicle smaller than my space ship connected by a bridge. I walked across the bridge and got into the vehicle. It was exactly the same as the space ship, as far as the interior goes. I saw inside a map of the surface of Mercury. I found a place I wanted to go and read a panel that stated, "TOUCH THE PLACE ON THE MAP WHERE YOU WANT TO GO WITH YOUR FINGER." I pushed the location of the highest mountain on Mercury and I felt the vehicle start to move. When the vehicle landed, it deployed a land rover, which I entered and then drove out of the space craft. It was very hot, so I turned on my space suit's air conditioning. I was so high that the land rover could not drive around. But, I saw on the control panel four buttons, saying "TRANSFORM," "AIRPLANE," "BOAT," AND "ROVER." I pushed "TRANSFORM" and "AIRPLANE" at the same time and the rover turned into a mini airplane. I flew around the highest mountains and I also flew into a giant volcano, which was presently inactive. I flew through a series of tunnels and finally came out at the bottom of the volcano. I sometimes turned the airplane back into a rover and explored some caves. After a while, I looked at my watch and realized it was very late (Earth time) and my mom does not like i when I come home late for dinner. I transformed the rover back into an airplane and flew back to the interatmospheric travel ship, TOWN RACE SERIES PARK CITY TOWN RACE SERIES "FINALS" MONDAY MARCH 29 wv. Giant Slalom on Payday B&C's- 10 am A, Pro, Pro Vet Vet -12:30 FINAL AWARDS PARTY APRIL 5 6 PM STEEPS All Entries Due By 12 Noon Sun. March 28 - Race Dept. Office INDIVIDUAL PER RACE ENTRY $ 1 2 For Entry Forms & Information Call 649-81 1 1 x 247 SUBARU, SM Official Car of the U.S. Ski Team A PRIVATE CLUB FOR ITS MEMBERS which I commanded to return to the main space ship. Once there, I commanded the ship to travel back to earth exactly where it left Once again, I was home in half an hour. Chapter Two Going Back In Time After I got home, I realized that I had been away all night and that my parents were worried. Before they saw me, I got back into my space ship and said, "Time travel approximately three p.m. today." After I said those words, I could see flashing lights all around the view screens. In twenty seconds (according to my Jazz watch), the flashing lights stopped and it was dark all around. I said, "Exterior lights on" and lights went on all around the space ship. I quickly realized that I was on Pluto because I asked, "Map of entire solar system" and a map appeared, showing me where I was. The reason it was dark, I figured, was because I was on Plutos dark side (the side that is turned away from the sun). I estimated that even at light speed, it would take very long to get home, so I put the ship into space jump mode, which speeds up the sip to the speed of about twenty times the speed of light and I was home, on earth, in one second. When I landed, I realized that I had landed in Australia by mistake, so I turned the space ship into a drill, and drilled through to the other side of the earth, where I ended up exactly one block from my house. What was reality amazing was that the space ship had not gotten dirty, because it automatically had put a piece of transparent Saran Wrap around itself and then discarded it I turned the space ship back into a drill and drilled a big tunnel in the ground in which I had the vehicle. (km) Then, I built an elevator to get out of and into the hole. I took the elevator up to the street and walked home right on time as if I had really gone to school. THE RIDDLE by Cody Wheaton, 4th Grade i Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen. One day there came two people arguing and fighting over a calf that cost $40.00. So the king said, "I will give you both one riddle, and whoever gets it right will get the calf." And he said, "What is a room with no walls? Go and bring me the answer tomorrow." So they both left. When the first person got home he tapped on his bed and it sank. He went through a passage and spke, "What is a room with no walls?" There was an answer and it said, "A mushroom." The second person thought it was a roof with sticks to hold it up. So they came back the next day. They gave their answers and the first one was right and he got the calf! The end. (Don't forget to submit short stories, poems and cartoons for fresh (Prints. 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