As time passed, inventions and discoveries started making life easy and comfortable for people. One of the greatest inventions ever made is of spaceship. People started travelling to the space from 1960s on spaceships and made it possible for the people to step in the moon also.

The first person to travel to space was Yuri Gagarin of USSR. Just after that, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin took their historical steps on the moon.

Going beyond the Earth’s atmosphere is not as easy as it seems. It needs a lot of intelligence and courage to do it. There are very few people who dare to go to space. We can know from the data of space agencies that no Nepali has ever crossed the horizon.

But I aim to do so. My first and last aim is to travel to the space and view the whole Earth with my own eyes. Flying in the space with no affect of gravitational pull is a dream for me. But I believe that it will not remain a dream forever. Space is my final destination. Neil Armstrong is my hero, who inspires me to cross the horizon and fly in the space. His saying, “That’s one small step for a man, but one giant leap for a mankind” when he stepped on the moon has affected me very much. Besides, Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s poem with verses of Udeshya ke linu udi chhunu chandra ek has also inspired me very much.

I know travelling to the space requires much money, which a Nepali cannot afford. But I also know that ‘where there is a will, there is a way.’ I will stake all I have to make my dream come true.

When I watch the photographs of astronauts, I close my eyes and feel myself being in the space with earth below me, stars on my head and other heavenly bodies on my side.

— Aashish Thapa, Suryodaya Sai

Secondary School