What If....?

What if I were to spend my summer vacation

On the Moon….

I was eagerly waiting for my summer vacation so that I could go to Kerala my native place to spend my holidays with my grandparents. But unfortunately my grandparents had planned a pilgrimage trip and were away. So what’s the fun in going to Kerala then? During the next few days we came to know about the Space shuttle which was taking tourists to the Moon for the summer holidays for a week so immediately we booked ourselves on the Shuttle. My brother and me were so excited about going to the Moon; We even read many facts about the Moon’s atmosphere and what all information we could gather about the Moon.

Before embarking on the journey all the tourists were given training how to take care of themselves on the Moon where there was no gravity [which was a new term for me!] My elder brother Rohit explained to me in simple words what gravity was and also came to know about Sir Issac Newton and the apple which fell on the ground. We were given space suits and an astronaut accompanied us on our journey. Finally our rocket took off with 20 passengers on board.

Within few hours we entered space and we saw so many stones which were big in size. And within half an hour we reached Moon. As we put our first foot on Moon I remembered Neil Armstrong and his crew about whom we had studied in G.K. It was really out of the world experience. Firstly I couldn’t stand properly on the Moon’s ground I felt so light. I felt moving around was quite different.

We were breathing through tubes which were attached to oxygen cylinders on our back. I felt like a robot. There was nothing on the Moon’s surface. Unlike Earth there were no trees, flowers, rivers, valleys etc. In fact there was no life! We were given juice to drink and imagine when I spilt some juice it simply started to float instead of falling down on the ground. Ah! Now I understand what gravity is.

We tried to play football on the Moon and the ball simply wouldn’t touch the ground. We couldn’t even run around. We were floating in the air. We would return to our space shuttle to have food and even contact our friends on the Earth through phone calls. Everyday we went roaming on Moon but only dust was visible. We spotted some footprints of the astronauts who had there been earlier, even flags of a few countries.

From the monitor of the space ship we saw the heavenly bodies around and also found our own Earth. It looked so small somehow I longed to be back on Earth. Finally, our space shuttle made a return trip and we were back on Earth in a few hours. Oh! How happy I was to back home. The trip to the Moon seemed a distant dream. It was an experience in itself, a different world altogether.

But ‘East or West’ our Earth is the best!