You book your ticket and begin making preparations for the trip.
Soon enough the big day arrives. You finish final packing and take a taxi to the spaceport. You can see the spaceplanes lifting off and heading for orbit as you get closer. You begin to get a little excited. It's really happening.
Once inside it's a bit of a challenge to find the right queue but you manage to check in with plenty of time to spare. Soon enough, you find yourself in another queue, this one much shorter, waiting to board the spaceplane. It strikes you as odd that most of the other passengers are women.
You follow the group down a long thin corridor and enter the space plane through its air-lock doors. Everyone finds a seat and straps themselves in. You hear the engine begin to warm up and then the spaceplace begins to move. Although the plane does not take of vertically, like the old rockets, it does accelerate quite quickly and you are pushed hard back into your cushioned chair.
Eventually you stop accelerating as the spaceplane reaches orbit. After a few minutes you can see the shuttle through your window. Its body is broad and round and has no windows. Eight large ionic propulsion drives are equally spaced around its circumference. This is the craft which will take you out of earth-orbit and to the space station.
Your space plane docks with the shuttle and everyone releases their belts and floats up out of their seats. On board the other craft you find the seats arranged in groups of 4, facing each other around a central table. Except for a round wall in the centre the entire space is open.
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