This is my collection of writings for the three hundred and sixty five day writing challenge - where one has to write something daily, every day, for one whole year, based on the prompts provided - as part of an exercise to improve creative writing...
"Write about a rocket-ship on it's way to the moon or a distant galaxy far, far, away."
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It was a furious blaze, a controlled burning of huge amounts of liquid fuel, which would create the thrust need to propel the rocket into space, with a force sufficient to break free from the gravitational pull of Earth. It needed to achieve almost a speed of 25,000 miles an hour to escape from Earth's atmosphere.
Once free and into the deep wide space, the view is startlingly different and unexpected; such a large emptiness that it looked black. And without the interference of Earth's atmosphere, the stars were different too, more like pin points of light rather than the twinkling sparks that they appeared to be from Earth.
But the highlight is the sight of Earth.
It is a blue ball, with swirls of white, and specks of green and brown. It is a strange yet exhilarating feeling, to see the planet that is your home, suspending like a ball in space, a ball that is receding as the rocket ship is travelling away from it and brings home a profound truth, it the vast emptiness of space, our planet is a tiny piece of rock and human life is a blink of an eye compared to the existence of the universe.
Half way to the moon, the loneliness of our Earth visible, a bright blue in a sea of black, a testimony to the ephemerality of our lives.
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Taken by: Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
Date: January 23, 1998
NASA's asteroid-bound NEAR spacecraft took this two-part image of Earth and the moon from about 250,000 miles. Antarctica is visible in the south pole. NEAR eventually reached Asteroid 433 Eros, began orbiting the space rock, and deployed its Shoemaker lander spacecraft in 2001.
