"To the moon!" you announce boldly.
Sasha Input nods curtly and types the course into the navigation computer.
"The journey will take approximately thirty-six Earth hours, Captain." she says without looking up, her face an eerie green in the light of the old computer screen.
You nod, and lie back in your chair, drumming your arms on the arm rests, and stare at the distant moon out of the windscreen. After ten minutes, you're bored of that. You look around the crowded cockpit. The air is already growing dry and stale, and a ventilation fan somewhere is rattling annoyingly. Sasha is frowning gently as she types away at her computer, and Yung has left the cockpit, presumably to go back to her quarters - each of you has a tiny berth above the cockpit, little more than a closet with a narrow bed built into one wall. You blow air out of your pursed lips as you look around for something to do. You wish you'd brought a book. |