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“Come on, hurry up,” Sarah thought, with her foot pressing the pedal all the way down. Even though the speedometer needle pegged the red zone at 30 mph and the electric engine whined in protest, the rover didn’t seem to go quite fast enough. Her heart thudded excitedly in her chest as she neared the needle-like spaceship in the distance, a sliver of silver in the night.

The cratered surface beneath the rover’s wheels gave her a bumpy, jostling ride, even if it was a predictable one. She knew the path by heart, and the previous trails leading from the colony to the landing pad demonstrated it. She clutched the oversized steering wheel for balance, dodging and ducking at crucial moments the whole way.

Finally she reached the perimeter of the pad, which wasn’t so much of a pad as a relatively flat space on the surface. She pulled the rover to a stop and sighed. Even more waiting! She fixed her gaze upon the ship and waited until a dark square opened in its surface. Then a dull-white metallic ladder fell to the surface with a dull thump, sending up a small cloud of rock dust. Daniel — he was always first — poked his helmeted head out the door and waved to her. She waved back, fidgeting in her seat. Then, as if in slow-motion, three spacesuits clambered down the ladder to the surface below, and began their loping half-bouncing, half-walking journey towards the rover.

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