My heart was racing. The engine was roaring now and almost deafening and I felt like my stomach was on a rollercoaster. Suddenly, with a slight jerk, I felt the airplane lift off the ground. 
Flying has always been a passion for me. Whenever I fly in a plane, I always want a window seat. I love looking out the window as the world flies by, especially, at night. I will never forget how the clouds light up like lanterns as you fly over major cities and how car lights twinkle as if they were fireflies. Even more beautiful, at night, are the uncountable number of stars twinkling in space above the airplane. This got me interested in space. 
In 5th grade, my family went to Kennedy Space Center where I saw, for the first time, space shuttles and gigantic rockets that once blasted off into space. It was impossible to imagine how things like that could even fly, much less go into space. Yet, mankind accomplished this feat. As John F. Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard… because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
College is here and I too have to face it. I’m going to accept this challenge like how the space pioneers did and triumph. They say, the sky is the limit but, I hope one day I can go beyond the sky and into space.