He approached from the north and came in at about the correct angle. He had complete a few landings in the past and was quite experienced with handling of the craft.
He touched down at the far end of the runway, his parachutes deployed, and he came to a halt just before the end of the runway. We were lucky, this runway wasn't designed for this type of craft.
He climbed his way out, I don't think I ever saw a man look so tired in my entire life. We quickly gathered around him to help hold him up. He had been in zero gravity, alone for a few weeks, with no ability to exercise. This made him very weak.
We drove him back to the machine to get the full story from him. It sounded like quite an exhausting event. Alternating between sleep and making course corrections to guide the asteroid away from us.
He described getting transported, and it sounded very familiar. I wasn't sure if I'd seen something similar in a movie or something. But I didn't have much time to think about that as he informed us that the crafts fuel levels were very low. So low that we wouldn't be able to break orbit let alone maneuver in space. He had been so exhausted on his trip, he didn't realize how low it was getting till landing.
It seemed like we were going to be stuck on Terra Duorum.
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