“Buckle your harnesses and lower your visors.”

How strange it feels to be strapped in this horizontal position. In the cockpit, all is calm, focused. Banks of flashing diodes accompany the final seconds of the countdown timer.

“Ignition!”  

The boosters roar to life, there’s no turning back! The Supergombo spaceship tears away from its launching pad, bursting through the clouds and leaving the heavy blanket of the night far behind.