5/30/2023 0 Comments Stuart gibbs waste of spaceI was just stuck with them, and the only other boy my age, Roddy Marquez, wasn’t much fun to hang out with. There were other kids at MBA, but I hadn’t been given any choice in selecting them. Not only did we have to deal with the same lousy dehydrated food and cramped sleeping spaces and sadistic toilets as the adults, but there were a host of other problems for kids. But as hard as it was for the adults, it was even worse being a kid there. It turned out, living on the moon was far more difficult than anyone had predicted. When NASA had recruited us, they had made it sound like MBA would be the most exciting, amazing, incredible place in the universe. Along with a handful of other scientists and their children, we lived at Moon Base Alpha, the first human settlement in outer space. We were some of the first lunar colonists. Now, before you start thinking that my father was the biggest cheapskate on earth, there are a few things you need to know:įor starters, my father couldn’t have been the biggest cheapskate on earth, because we didn’t live on earth. For my thirteenth birthday, my father gave me the greatest present I could have ever hoped for: He took me outside to play catch.
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