One

Log 5

Don't worry, you didn't miss logs 3 & 4. I'm not doing every single log otherwise this story will be way too long for me to write and it's supposed to be a novella.

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Hours since launch: 117

Day of travel: 5

The workouts in space are hard.

Well, it's not that it's harder just because it's in space, it's because the delightful people of Earth have made up much harder workouts for us to do while we're in space so we don't waste away. What's even better (please note the sarcasm) is that they've also given us recordings of workout programs with six different workouts for each of the main muscle groups.

Yep, just because we're in space doesn't mean we get to lounge about all day and eat space food. Speaking of which, the food isn't actually too bad, despite common rumours back on Earth about astronauts eating all sorts of horrible things. For people who still believe we eat food out of toothpaste tubes, the way things work on spacecraft has changed in the past few centuries!

I should probably mention the differences in spacecraft as well. Our starship is very, very different from anything created before. So different, in fact, that its design would have prevented it from taking off from Earth. As a result, the ship was built in pieces, launched and assembled in space. And as the eight of us are unable to walk from Earth into space, we had to be launched from a rocket and attach the capsule to One before we could actually get onto the starship. Anyway, back to the ship. It has a cylindrical body for storing fuel and massive boosters at the back to propel it forward. Around the body is a ring that rotates around it to create gravity. That's where we live, the gravity helping to keep our muscles from deteriorating, although we still need to do all the exercise. Out the front of the fuel store is a little cone holding the control room which connects to the ring to allow us to move into it.

I can't think of anything else the wonderful, yet often incredibly stupid people of Earth misconceive about space travel. So I guess I'm going to bore you with the events of my day so far.

After waking up from my first time attempting to sleep in space, I had my first breakfast in space and completed my first exercise routine in space. I'm having a lot of firsts today and it feels weird, doing things I've always done but in a way and place that makes them feel totally new. I'm not the only one either, Corie hasn't been in space before too,although his cousin who's here with us have. The others have been off Earth either on some other short mission or just to go up to one of the many space stations orbiting our planet for a month or two or even just for one day. As glad as I am that I'm not the only one who hasn't been off Earth before, I'm definitely glad that we have people here who have. They know what it's like the first time you leave your planet and will know what to do if one of us starts freaking out about being away. They have to be able to, because there's no going back. Ever.

Anyway, I'm on a short, scheduled break between other tasks. Every moment of every single day runs on a schedule created by the ship's computer depending on what needs to be done on a day-to-day basis. It's pretty cool because we couldn't have been sent into space with a pre-made schedule in case something went wrong. So the computer checks all the systems and creates individual schedules for the day, also taking into account things like exercise, meals and anything else essential for human life and health.

There are many other cool things the computer can do but to be honest, no one's ever told me all of its functions. Besides, even if I did I wouldn't have enough time to list them all.

Gotta go.

- C Velour :)

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