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Spaced Out

I am an astronaut headed for the international space station after years of training for exactly this. Riding to the station on a Russian rocket with two Russian’s to replace the threesome that have been in space for six months. Hours from docking communications with the Russians was strained with me knowing a small amount of Russian and they even less English. We docked later that day and met with the existing crew going over duties and planned experiments and jobs before they left a few days later leaving only the three of us on the station. Though we share the station, much of what I do is independent from what they do but we team up for the larger jobs and space walks. The ISS orbits the Earth every ninety minutes so we get to see a sunrise and a sunset every 45 minutes. One of the Russian’s, Rolf, left his sleeping compartment door open and fell asleep and not being in his wall mounted sleeping bag he floated out into the main room while he slept. Rolf was a good looking g