Odyssey: Part 1

© 2021 Joan Piqué Llorens.

"The shuttle looked even more impressive at close glance. It loomed over the tarmac like an impatient bird of prey, elegant, but finding herself uneasy on land, longing to return to the skies where she belonged. Her silhouette was  smooth yet aggressive, a blend of organic aerodynamics and gaping jet intakes. A small army of service vehicles and personnel hurried at her feet, dwarfed by the colossal volumes of the machine.

Merely half a century ago, regular civilian flight between Earth and its colonies in the system would have seemed impossible. Now it was made almost trivial by the Enterprise and her sister ships."