LeoWattenberg

As the roller coaster that was the launch subsided, Max entered micro-gravity. She sighed in relief, despite not being relieved at all. Max had successfully stolen one of the two remaining Burans, together with an Energija rocket. And when stealing from Russia, you don’t get do relax, lest you want to wake up to a Plutonium coffee one day. But maybe, thought Max, Russia wouldn’t care. They hadn’t cared about this thing for the past 30 years. Which also wasn’t a reason to be relieved, who knows how many of the components she didn’t inspect had been rotten and would fail. If Max had looked out the window to inspect the stars, she might have seen satellites whizzing by way too close. Down on earth, some TVs would lose signal for a bit, causing fans to miss a last-minute goal by their favourite team. Down on earth, things were getting heated as those fans were calling the support line to complain. Down on earth, things were getting tense as the leaders of the world were preparing for