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    September 4th 2060 we the people of New America 

are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first colony 

founding on Mars.

 Hi I’m Timothy and this is the story of how I got to Mars 

at the age of 24. I’m part of the largest nation on the 

planet. To know the complete story of how I came to be 

here you must start at the beginning of the space race.

    On October 4, 1957 the 

Soviet Union launch the 

first satellite into orbit and 

began the space race. The 

space race was a race 

between nations to see 

who could land a man on 

the moon first. 

On July 20, 

1969 the U.S 

landed Apollo 1 

on the moon 

and won the 

first round of 

the space race. 

The space race for the moon had ended that day but the 

world wanted to land a man on Mars and a new space 

race started up, and it was my dream to be a part of that 

program.

    I was born on September 16th 2016 to Alexa and 

Jonathan Wright I was the Middle of 5 kids. We were a 

middle class American family from Aztec, New Mexico. 

We had cacti for trees and never ran out of play sand. 

I hadn’t seen snow until I was 15 and we drove to my 

aunt who lives in Marquette, Michigan. 

When I was about 8 years old I heard that first manned 

mission to Mars was returning to to Earth. That year all I 

wanted for my birthday and Christmas was to go to Cape 

Canaveral, Florida and meet the astronauts that had 

been to Mars. 

That summer after school I got my wish and the family 

vacation that year was to drive to Cape Canaveral, 

Florida and watch the spacecraft land and watch the 

astronauts disembark. 

On the 27 hour drive to florida in the family van I sat in 

the back, of our refurbished school bus, and looked up 

everything I could about Mars and the exploration of it. I 

read every website that had reliable sources so I didn't 

get bad information. 

When we arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida we had 

arrived two days before the landing was projected to 

take place, so I, with family in tow, visited the Valiant Air 

Command war birds Museum, The Kennedy space Center 

where I met astronauts who had been to the 

International Space Station, the US Space Walk of Fame, 

the Air Force Space and Missile Museum, and NASA KT. I 

learned more information from those museums than I 

had during the driving part of the trip. 

Then since it was a family trip we had to go to the 

Orlando Fashion Mall, lucky for the men we saw the 

Smokey Bones Grill across the street.

After the two days of waiting my dream was about to 

come true I was in the front row on my Dad’s shoulders 

watching the spacecraft land. 3, 2, 1, touchdown, the 

landing craft had landed on the runway and as it slowly 

rolled to a stop the door of the craft slowly opened and 

out came a large man who was tall and strong. 

It was the missions leader Christian Williams, he saw me 

and signed my poster, he also told me that he used to 

be just like me when he was young he told me it 

wouldn’t be easy but I could get to Mars if I was willing 

to do whatever it takes. Then came the rest of the crew, 

all signing my poster and telling me to try hard and I 

could get to go to Mars.

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