By The prompt for this week was to write a news story. This is obviously a fake story, but I did my best to write in the inverted pyramid news style of an actual news article that you would find in a newspaper.
This was defiantly inspired by the Artemis II trip around the moon. The pictures alone are incredible. The actual science, math, and engineering that got us there is amazing. If you haven’t seen the photos yet, you can see them on them on the NASA site here. The eclipse images are some of the most incredible photos I’ve ever seen.
As a heads up, my news story turned a bit darker than I intended. It is set in the future when Artemis III is supposed to land on the moon. Horror vibes inbound. Anyway, I’d love to hear your thoughts on both my story and on the Artemis II mission. Happy reading.
Suspected Graves of Forgotten Gods Found on Moon
By NASA Correspondent: L. McGee
The astronauts of Artemis III found the headstones for forgotten gods of the universe when they landed on the dark side of the moon. This comes after the first humans land on the moon in over 50 years.
On April 22nd, 2028 at 3:18pm Central Standard Time the crew landed the Orion lunar lander for their first spacewalk. During this spacewalk a twelve hour window was planned for the crew to be out of radio connect with Houston. At 11:35pm CST Houston received a transmission nearly four hours before the expected to hear from the Artemis III crew.
Transcript from Artemis III Captain Ari Lewis to Houston
Orion:
“Orion to Houston. This is Captain Lewis. We have evacuated the lunar surface and are back in orbit. Oh gods, oh gods.”
Houston:
“Captain, this is Houston. What happened, why did you scrub the planned ten hours on the lunar surface?”
Orion:
“There are graves on the moon, none of our imagery shows them. We checked and checked again. Graves with names in forgotten languages. At least we think they are graves. There was an odd stone automaton with slow moving stone arms tending the headstones. Wiping away the lunar and cosmic dust that had accumulated over the eons.
This graveyard is in a crater encircled with cairns. Our lunar lander set down only a couple hundred yards from an obelisk. Each side contained several languages, only one appeared to be a known human language it read:
Do not speak. Tread with caution. Do not wake the forgotten powers.”
Static crackles over the radio frequency as the captain’s voice faded slowly.
Houston:
“Orion, Captain Lewis, are you still there?”
Static crackles over the radio frequency.
Orion:
“We’re still here Houston. For now. We read one of the names aloud. One of the few written with English characters. Where was the harm? We ran for our ship when the ground began to rumble. We are sorry Earth. We are sorry.”
Houston received a last download of images and coordinates. Static crackles over the radio frequency.
End of transmission
Experts at NASA are now going through the last download from the Orion spacecraft and the deep space network is monitoring the lunar surface and the space around it. Nothing has been seen on any of the various imaging devices as of yet. Contact with the Artemis III crew has not been reestablished but the Orion ship itself can be seen on radar. We will continue to provide updates as they become available.
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