Richard Westenra

Last week I went for two trips to space. The first one was aboard a private spacecraft, kind of like SpaceShipOne. I won a trip on the spaceship through some kind of competition I entered on the back of a cereal box or something. I don’t remember what the competition was about, but the space flight was pretty rad. When I got back to Earth, NASA contacted me for some kind of mission to the International Space Station, so I was all like ‘sure, whatever’ and went along. It was pretty cool too. I made some critical upgrades to some mission critical systems and went on a critical space walk. Then I woke up and realised it was all just a dream. Anyway, these are some photos I got the other guys to take of me while I was there. I apologise if some of them are a little hard to make out, it’s hard to take photos in space because of all the critters.

This photo was taken aboard the private spacecraft. At this point being in space was still pretty new for me, so I was fairly excited about it.

This picture is of me with the NASA space shuttle that took me to the International Space Station. This was my first time doing a space walk. It was pretty neat.

In this picture I am hanging out with Rob and Chris who are two other astronauts. We are attaching a new truss segment to the ISS and beginning to upgrade the power grid or something like that. I like this photo because you can see my house in the background.

Anyway I hope you like my pictures. I am glad I brought my camera and got the other astronauts to photograph me in space, otherwise my friends would never believe that I really went to space in my dream.

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