Hey hey Whyville! Long time, no see!
Sorry it's been so long since y'all
have heard from me. I feel bad; from the looks of my Y-mail, I've missed
a bunch of Disco parties that I was invited to. But at least I've got a
good excuse -- I was in Antarctica, on a top secret mission of WASA and City
Hall.
Now I've got your attention, eh?
Not very many people know this, since it is after all top secret, but WASA will be setting up a base in Antartica for the purpose of constructing a launch site.
Why would Whyville need a launch site, you ask?
Why, in order to launch rockets to the Whyville Space Station, of course!
What Whyville Space Station, you ask? Why, the one they're building, of course!
Pieces of the Whyville Space Station, code name "WSS", will be sent up from the WASA launch pad just outside of Whyville Square at 2000 hours EST (that's 8pm Eastern Standard Time, 5pm on the west coast) every Wednesday until it's finished. Keep your eyes peeled this Wednesday for the first launch!
Once these launches are complete, the work has only begun! WASA has
asked me to officially request assistance from all of Whyville: they need
help with Stage Two of the Whyville Space Station mission, which means we
need as many people as possible to get trained, ASAP! Licensed WASA cadets
will help deliver payloads of oxygen to the space station -- an awesome
opportunity and a huge responsibility!!!
Most exciting of all, after the station is filled with oxygen (which should
take 50,000 canisters, I'm told by WASA engineers), I hear that some cadets
may even be allowed to go up on the WSS itself!!
Training sessions will occur in WASA, in the SIRTF building, starting some time in the next couple of weeks. Keep tuned to the Times for an annoucement! In the meantime, Club Why members are asked to help beta test the cadet training program at the Club Why Beta Test area.
I think the exploration of space is vital to all our futures, here in Whyville and the rest of the world. I'm ecstatic that me and my fellow Whyvillians have this opportunity to be involved. From what I can tell, this space station mission is just the tip of the iceberg for what WASA has planned.
