We launch in T- 10 minutes.
"Joshua if your to scared you can back out now" Said my mom as she hugged me hard.
"No i can't back down now. I spent more than a billion dollars on this thing and I'm not backing down now." I said in reply.
Launch in T- 7 minutes.
The elevator that rose up to the top of the rocket was 168 feet high, not counting the steps you have to walk up to get to the capsule. The door to the capsule opened and all the computers turned on as planned. I closed the capsule door and sealed it by pushing the pressurize button.
Launch in T- 3 minutes.
I already had my space suit on and I was hooking it to the various hoses hanging from the ceiling. One was labeled with a sticky note saying 'cryo' on the front. I hooked the hose up to an auxiliary connector on my space suit, which led to the climate control inside my suit.
Launch in T- 60 seconds
I tuned my radar altimeter and began pressing buttons on the preflight checklist console.
LES:Ok
Fuel Feed:Ok
All Gauges: Ok
I completed all 20 of my preflight checks and the rocket started to whir to life.
T-20 seconds to launch
I locked my helmet into place and armed the emergency pressurization buttons.
You have to press 3 buttons in a row to set it off, so no accidents would occur.
Launch in T-10
I strapped myself into the harness and tightened it firmly.
T-5
4
3
2
Ignition
1
Releasing
Lift off! We have lift off of the centurion 1B
The rocket rattled so much i was physically shaking back and forth in my seat, like in cartoons when someone drinks caffeine. All i could think about was making sure the rocket didn't crash from me not pushing the sequencing buttons.
"Uh Joshua you are clear for escape tower sep." said the mission controller. Woah it had been that long already? I did as i was told and pushed a tower saying 'tower sep.'. "tower separated control" I responded as i soared higher and higher. My radar altimeter ended at 24,000 yards and then the booster cutoff. About 5 seconds after booster cutoff i heard an explosion of the decoupler separating me from the booster as well as igniting the orbital stage. The G meter was hitting 2 G's as the orbital stage entered full power mode. As expected the orbital stage cut off once a stable orbit was reached. Then the fun part begins. I unstrapped myself and went to the back of the capsule and pulled a handle down. The back of the capsule was starting to assemble and the stasis pod was opening up for me to come in. I unhooked all the hoses from my suit and climbed in to the stasis pod. I screwed in the cryo hose again and could feel myself getting tired. Before i passed out completely i used my wrist console to set a course for the closest planet capable of sustaining life.