It was wonderful up there. Ralph wanted to reach out and touch a star, for they looked so close. He could see the earth geting smaller and smaller.
The ship circled around a large star called Mars, and his space friends made Ralph understand that this was their home.
He wanted to ask all kinds of questions , but no one could answer him. There was nothing to eat or drink. These people had only few coloured pills which they ate when they were hungry.
Soon it became quite harder for Ralph to breathe than he felt at first. He left so
light that he could not even stand on his own feet. “If I could only have some water,” he wished , “and a ride back down to the earth!”
The spacemen knew that it was time for Ralph to leave. He could not live up there any longer without special air and a suit like theirs. So they took him to a part of the ship where there was room enough for just one man. A door closed over his head and in a minute Ralph was flying down to the earth in his own rocket ship.
Suddenly he felt the rocket slow down and then stop. He was back on the earth.