Carmen slowly eased off the throttle and felt the last tiny remnants of thrust gravity lift away from every muscle and bone in her body. She loved that moment when everything just let go and began to float. There was no practical reason to be handling the throttle manually - she could have programmed the flight computer to achieve geosynchronous orbit around the moon automatically and it would have handled the task precisely. But she had to retain at least SOME of the tactile pleasures of piloting her spacecraft.
She looked over at Samantha in the co-pilot chair, where the cute wavy-haired blonde was starting to drift in her restraints. Not that their small survey vessel needed a co-pilot, or that Samantha could pilot ANYTHING. She was the engineer in charge of the sixty-four survey probes that would be cast in a net around the moon to map its every nook and cranny, penetrating the surface with its scanners to locate all the precious mineral deposits.
"Full stop, baby," said Carmen, swiveling her seat to face the other woman. She grinned as a few strands of her long brown hair drifted around her head and face. She'd need to go find a hair elastic later to cinch it up into a ponytail.
Samantha sighed happily. "That's more like it. I missed being in free-fall."
They'd left the colony planet and had been burning towards this moon orbiting the nearby gas giant for three days, then flipped the ship around to start their decelerating burn for three more days. Each phase of acceleration or deceleration (the floor and the seats were oriented with feet facing the engines) meant simulated gravity the whole time. There wasn't a lot to do in transit, so they had... acquainted themselves with each other. Even though they had known each other by sight as fellow colonists down on the main camp, they hadn't ever talked - there were a lot of colonists. On this fateful assignment that had sequestered them together, they had corrected that oversight with extreme prejudice. There hadn't been an evening where one of them hadn't found themselves in the other's bunk.
Samantha keyed in the sequence to launch her probes. They started spitting out of the tubes on each side of the hull in five-second intervals, whizzing away from the survey ship and arcing out to cover the whole moon. After a few minutes, the little shudders at each probe launch ceased and the quiet hum of the ship was again unbroken.
"How long will the scans take again, Sam?"
"Let me ask the computer. Sophie, how long will it take for our probes to gather the data?"
Sophie, which is what Samantha and Carmen had named their onboard computer for this mission, replied through all the cabin's speakers in a uniform, soothing voice.
"Data acquisition is expected to complete in approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes."
Carmen drummed her nails on the surface of her console.
"Well, now what?"
Samantha winked at Carmen, wrinkling her cute, slightly upturned nose. "Well, I guess we have some time on our hands!"
Carmen's cheeks reddened slightly. She had perhaps been only slightly intentional in her suggestive question, but it had mostly been innocent. She grinned demurely.
"Well I'm game for whatever..."
Samantha raised her eyebrows and reached up to the center of her chest, with a single click releasing herself from her chair restraints. She shrugged herself out of the shoulder straps and floated a foot up towards the ceiling. With cat-like grace she pushed off an arm rest and glided face-first towards Carmen.
Carmen could see down the front of Samantha's jumpsuit. It was unzipped at the neck and slightly open, showing her ample cleavage. There was a little bit of black lace peeking out. Those definitely weren't colony-ration underthings. She'd chosen to bring that in her miniscule "indulgence stash" from back home - that said something about her priorities.
Samantha slowed herself with her hand on Carmen's chair as she drew close. She swung one of her legs down to the floor where her mag boot engaged with a softened clunk, and faced Carmen, straddling her with the free leg. She reached out with her hand and gently put two fingers under Carmen's chin and tilted her head up and looked deep into her big brown eyes.
"Hey there, Beautiful."
"Hey Sam," breathed Carmen. She really noticed all the little striations in Samantha's baby blue irises in that particular lighting.
Sam's lips descended onto Carmen's and their bodies crushed together in hunger. Eyes closed, they breathed each other in and felt the surge of life and desire in their bodies, made more intense because they had been sitting for so long. Tongues darted wetly together in their mouths - tasting, searching, beckoning. After long, languorous moments they disengaged.
Samantha grasped the buckle at Carmen's chest and the restraints fell apart.
Carmen remembered all of a sudden that she did have a hair tie in her chest pocket. She fished it out and pulled her elbows back, hands behind her head, fastening her hair into a ponytail. In doing so, her chest pushed out slightly and Samantha's eyes widened in semi-joking appreciation.
"Oh, I gotta get me some of that!"
Samantha tugged the zipper down the front of Carmen's flight suit and to her ACTUAL surprise, found that Carmen's chest was bare underneath. Carmen grinned.
"Happy to oblige, my friend."
Holding eye contact, Samantha lowered her mouth to one of Carmen's tight little brown nipples, flattening her tongue against it and inhaling. Carmen's eyes fluttered as Sam sucked on her tit. First darting her eyes to the other nipple, Samantha then shifted her head over and pleasured that little nub as well. Carmen's toes curled in her mag boots and she felt her nethers start to cream a little. She ran her hand gently through Samantha's wavy blonde tresses.
After a while, Samantha pulled Carmen's zipper lower, right on down to her crotch, and found that Carmen was not wearing any underwear at all. A small brown landing strip of hair led down to where the top of her pussy peeked out - a cute little hood of flesh over her softly swelling clit.
"Fuck, yes!" Sam exhaled.
Carmen grinned again, mischievously.
"I mean, it's just you and me here. I thought I'd dispense with some of the formalities!"
Samantha reached into Carmen's suit with her hand and slid it down over her pussy lips. Carmen squealed with laughter, but also arched her back and lifted her bum off her seat to provide better access. Samantha buried her nose and mouth into the side of Carmen's neck and began kissing her there, passionately. Meanwhile she started rubbing with her hand, a slow firm pace to start, and then gradually faster as Carmen's panting increased.