Hi there! Something you should know about me is that I love to write stories. Usually, I start out by thinking up of story ideas. There's been a story idea floating in my head for a while now so I'm going to write it down for the first time.
It starts out with a girl (Sarah) who grows up in a space agency similar to NASA because her father works there. Sarah watches astronauts train to go to space and she decides that she wants to be an astronaut. She trains day in and day out until she's much older. Meanwhile, Sarah's mother is not supportive of the agency and decides to take the plans for a spaceship and give them to another countries space program. (She also leaves them and stays in that country). Sarah's father is devastated and although he wants to quit, he doesn't because his skills are very much in demand. While Sarah is training, she learns of a write an astronaut activity that "NASA" is doing. She starts writing letters (I'm still figuring out how they will get them up to space) to an astronaut who we'll call Brett. She gains a friendship with Brett through writing him.
Then the group of astronauts Brett is in has to come back to Earth. They failed their mission (to protect Earth against a future virus that could kill everyone) and the captain told the team to go back to Earth for now. Sarah is able to meet Brett for the first time and really connect with him. Around the same time Brett comes to Earth, Sarah fails the test to become an astronaut. Sarah is greatly upset and doesn't get any sympathy from her father.
Suddenly people start to get sick and its figured out that those astronauts that came back brought the dreaded virus with them. People are panicking and the plan is to just keep the virus contained to the space agency and let those who caught it die. Sarah decides to take action (without her father's permission) and her and Brett race to space to find out what's really going on. It's later found out that the space captain has been taken over by an alien entity and purposely gave the astronauts the virus to spread to Earth. Sarah and Brett have to find a way to stop the captain and the disease.
This is just an idea so I don't have everything worked out yet. I think this story can be considered cliche but I think I added my own twist to it. ANYWAY, tell me what you thought! Any feedback would be wonderful.
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