The last thing they wanted to confront was the same problem. Maintaining a safe environment inside what was approximately the same size as a standard pick-up truck sized crew space was important. Dane and Adriana had learned the mutated bacteria inside the Chinese capsule was dangerously flammable. Exposure to even the tiniest spark would ignite it as if it were a patch of gasoline. Inside a pressurized capsule it would be the same as a pressure cooker. Any crew would be flash roasted in the blink of an eye.
Dane easily envisioned Adriana slathering her despised Blue Goop liberally all over herself. Her assisting Technician held out a myriad of wires and sensors she would need to stick to her body. In their Sims, she had learned to attach the jumble of sensors and wires quickly, with dexterous moves. In microgravity, Vaughan realized Sage would hardly have an easy time of it. He laughed at himself also. The BIS sensors, he predicted, would quickly become a tangled uncooperating mass resembling spaghetti and small rounded sensor discs to be sworn at. He feared the confined living space of the Selene CM and their Lunar Lander would only make matters even more frustrating. Dane was looking forward to watching Adriana' exasperated Chica personality come to the surface. He was looking forward to hearing a whole new litany of Latina STEM Chica cursing.
Vaughan empathized with Sage's discomfort when it came to being outfitted with all their BIS paraphernalia. He realized Sage would have no feminine mystique to cloak herself with. Her Flight Surgeon would know what she was experiencing as it happened. During their training, he frequently hoped to impress upon her he was her partner in all things and whatever she was dealing with, he was her compadre.
To help ease her pre-launch jitters, if Sage were having them, he directed one of his Suit Techs to deliver a Cuban cigar and a large insulated thermos mug of coffee to her Suit Room. He was smirking over the sudden thought NASA's PR photographer would snap pictures of Adriana in her pressure suit, reclining in her battered lounge chair, puffing a Cuban cigar like a boss, as the popular epithet went. She had smuggled a pack of Gauloises Blondes aboard the Selene CM in her Personal Care Kit along with two of his Cuban cigars. He was grinning like a fool, knowing these were with her
Womany necessaries,
as he dubbed them. Stowed with her tampons and Vag-Wand.
This is NASA's Public Relations Office with you as you watch coverage of America's return to the Moon, live. Adriana Sage is there on your screen beside Dane Vaughan, Mission Engineer and as you see they both are wearing their pressure suits but shortly, they'll be allowed to remove them and be much less hindered by them. NASA nomenclature has no listing of Space Suit per se...
Adriana waved into the camera between her boots for what seemed to her like the ten-thousandth time. NASA was big on PR, she chided herself. She had no real idea what the NASA Public Relations Office narrator was saying about her or Vaughan as she waved and smiled. Dane was so closely wedged alongside her body, every move he made caused their bodies to rub against each other. Repeatedly, she playfully shoved him away or swatted his arm.
"CapCom...Selene for Adriana," She smiled unconsciously with honest fondness at the voice in her com cap. "How about...since we have no real delta issues, you give us a quick Mission Commander's tour of Selene's Command Module for your STEM Fan Club watching. Copy?"
"Good idea!" Sage replied. Once again, her smile visibly became a fixed disguise. She thought it was a stupid idea. Outside their Capsule, the Earth's aurora was ablaze in brilliant green shimmering waves and she wanted to do nothing more than watch it and surreptitiously try to massage her aching butt cheeks. The Gs she was punished by during the climb to orbit had left an aching proof that Space was not a welcoming environment. Her ass was aching and she was becoming aware of a peculiar ache arising within her lower abdominal gut. It felt like she was on the verge of ovulation but she knew it was too early in her cycle for that. While she covertly rubbed her aching butt, Sage connived to massage her lower tummy, also.
"Greetings from orbit, everyone!" Adriana began her video tour. "Saludos desade la obita, todos!" Sage translated her words to Spanish but found herself having to think for a second as she did. Astronauts and Cosmonauts, particularly women, had reported their thinking was frequently slower and confusing even to them. They had jokingly referred to the phenomena as
The Stupids.
Her Flight Surgeon had informed her they may last a few hours or the duration of her mission. Each woman reacted in her own unique way. Adriana had been quietly informed her Flight Surgeon had been one of the women who had taken up the habit of sketching erect cocks during her private time aboard the ISS. Sage wanted to giggle anxiously as the thought developed in her mind.
It was best,
Adriana grinned conspiratorially,
not everyone knew her mind.
Take Vaughan beside her, Sage's mind entertained her as her mouth rambled through her video tour, he was the physical epitome of a California surfer boy. Vaughan's hair was sun golden naturally rebellious from wind and waves. He was a career Naval officer who never came off to her or anyone as a uniform wearing tight ass. Sage had worried about that when they first met. He could have been a true Pendejo. Instead, he was an easy on the eyes
increiblemente guapo.
Vaughan was her height but not overly muscular, in the way some of the military men she had met. It was as if Bhudda had mated with a Surfing Princess and fathered a laid back good-looking beach bum, Sage mused to herself. It was only natural her cuca was vying for her attention.
This must be the Stupids,
Sage decided with a giggle.