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space station or rocket had been discarded and
had fallen there.
    Rosenberg
wanted to check it, before they returned to the shuttle, and so did
he! But their main problem was their oxygen was running out, and
they only had a little left, even after taking Campbell’s, and they
swiftly left, and left Campbell where he was, for investigators to
find him, and they saluted him, at where he was, and went away from
the hill wondering what had happened.
    When they finally approached the place they
both started to gasp as they realized that they had lost more air
than they had thought they would, and Cronenberg even thought his
last tank was empty a dozen times, and felt like collapsing, and he
approached the site struggling to focus on what was there, seeing a
distorted form of the sun, shimmering around, and he again adjusted
the hot temperature that built up in his spacesuit, and wondered
what had happened to its stability and ability to control its
temperature, and he realized it could be him, and his struggle to
get there faster, and he sighed as his spacesuit adjusted and he
felt its coolness cool his body, with ecstatic pleasure.
    The site looked incredible as they staggered
into the area, a miniature valley, and crater in the landscape,
hidden at three sides from areas further out, and only visible from
where they had seen it on the hill.
    It had resemblances to volcanic desert region
and Rosenberg started analyzing and taking soil samples about him,
while he inspected what was there and found the wreckage of a space
vehicle, and on a closer approach he saw that most of it was buried
in the ground, and had structural damage from an explosion, and
fire.
    The heat from
the explosion had had more of an effect on it than he had realized
further out! Things somehow took a different perspective than the
damage of a normal fire.
    He asked
Rosenberg for his advice, recalling Rosenberg was experienced in
space vehicles, as well as being one of the flight engineers like
Campbell was, and he had some experience in the old stuff.
    They rushed around and investigated
everything, thoroughly.
    Cronenberg examined it in detail and
half-heartedly observed the soil and rocks – while looking out for
traces of anything within the layers of ground.
    Rosenberg examined things, as swiftly as he
could, clearly running out of air and trying to quickly finish the
investigation so they could rush away to the shuttle.
    Suddenly he yelled out and Cronenberg rushed
over and found him standing next to a partially buried spacesuit,
stuck in the sand, with the top part resting over boulders, and
they examined the helmet faceplate and Cronenberg lifted it up and
saw a skeleton inside and he followed its stare going up into the
Martian sky, and he read the nameplate on the suit, and realized it
his name was Anders, and he recalled his name.
    “ Did he not go missing?” Rosenberg
gasped.
    “ Years ago! They never found where he
went …”
    He recalled reading about it when he was
younger, and him thinking of becoming an astronaut.
    “ This place is incredible!” Rosenberg
announced. “What are the chances of two space vehicles coming down
here?”
    He nodded back amazed and examined the rocket
vehicle, and wondered what it had been like, and Rosenberg rushed
away and continued his investigation of the crash site.
    Cronenberg started examining the pockets and
contents of the spacesuit and was surprised at how preserved the
things were and that one of the items was an old map, with names
and locations on it, which clearly had been used a lot by Anders,
and he studied the area on it and realized it was the area they
were at.
     

Chapter 7
     
    The Rescue
     
    While they
marched swiftly back to the shuttle Cronenberg kept going over the
events trying to piece them together but he could not grasp
something! Something hidden or obvious! Some clue that they had not
noticed!
    The heat from
bright sun shining straight into their faces, through the