I had brought a number of illustrated magazines giving an account of the various Russian and American cosmonauts. It was an interesting reading and the description of what they did and saw was so interesting that I do not know when I felt off.
I had been selected for the first landing on moon. It was really a matter of great joy. My friends were congratulating me on this opportunity. The rocket and the space craft in which I was to travel had all the convenience.
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Besides electro-magnetic controls, temperature control and especially pressurized cabin, it was fitted with the mechanism to come back to earth. There was enough provision for a period of one month. There was also a system of relaying messages to earth.
It was the 30th of June. Early in the morning after the medical check-up I put on my space suit and at 7 a.m. in the morning I was launched into space. With a bang and a blast, the rocket rose into space. My speedometer was showing the rate at which I was soaring.
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The higher I went the greater was the speed for the craft. Now I felt absolutely weight-less. It appeared that if not fixed to my seat I would float. My ship had moved out of the region of the gravitational pull of the earth.
I was moving ahead making revolutions. I was only a few thousand kilometers away from the moon. I moved my eyes towards the window. Ah! what a grand spectacle it was outside. On one side was the dazzling sun light and on the other was the dark starry night.
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A mystery, indeed! The earth was just a luminous ball. The moon was now looking much bigger. I was very near it. The whole region was getting yellow and whitish. The moon appeared to be hard and rocky like the earth.
Oh! I must take the controls now. I was now moving round the moon. And with a thrill and excitement in my heart I relayed this message to the earth.
I told how I was feeling and how the moon appeared. My joy knew no bounds. Now I was hovering right over the moon. I was looking out for a suitable landing ground.
I do not know, when I landed. In my excitement I had become unaware of everything. I do not know how I landed. Most probably, I had crash-landed because even though I had kept my eyes closed, I seemed to hear the sound of a crash.
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Gradually, I picking up my confidence to open the eyes when the angry words of my mother fell into my eyes. I was lying on my bed and she was angry that in my sleep I had crashed the crockery set placed on the table nearby.
I could not make up by mind-how my mother had reached the moon. Was I walking? Yes, I was fully awake and I was in my room. The dream had been over, but the sweet memories of that were still fresh.