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The day that was supposed to change history forever. It was a night that I would never forget. Hi my name is Alan Shepard Jr. and this is my story of what happened that one unforgettable night. The year was 2024, I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was not a typical night like any other. At the time I was an Astronaut for NASA and I was preparing for a launch in two weeks. I was to hitch a ride inside of the space shuttle Endeavor to relieve some scientists that were on the space station Discovery. The team that I was with to go up consisted of 5 people, a shuttle commander and four scientists. I was one of those scientists. But unfortunately something happened on the space station and my team and I had to leave that night. We had to go up and fix the air regulator on the space station or they would run out of air and die. The scientists in the Discovery space craft had only 48 hours of air left. As I went up the elevator that took us to the top along side of the shuttle, I could remember looking out to the sky. The sky was dark with lots of clouds and there was supposed to be a storm coming. Then the rain started to fall out of the sky very lightly. At the time I was concerned because there has never been a launch . . .
As we fell the wind pushed us out into the ocean somewhere. This was a risk that NASA was willing to take or possibly lose the life of some excellent astronauts. I stepped over it to get to my seat and sat down to wa! it for one of the engineers to strap me in. The sh! uttle was equipped so that in case of and emergency the top part of the space shuttle can detach and float back down to earth by parachute. So we had to find shelter away from the storm. It rained so hard that visibility was at zero. One problem that no one anticipated on was the high winds. As I sat there I thought about my wife and kids. It was as if someone or something was trying to warn us not to attempt such a crazy thing. I sat right behind the shuttle commander so I had a pretty good view of what was happening outside. Suddenly I saw a lightning bolt streak across the sky. All of the controls went haywire and the shuttle was out of control. Rescuers found us and rescued us. The lightning in the sky lit everything up for a split second to almost say that you would think it was day time. I then heard the bolts that were holding the shuttle in place explode so that the shuttle could be free.
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