George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt by Lucy Hawking

Author:Lucy Hawking
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

George’s heart sank at the idea of Annie navigating her way around the Solar System. If she couldn’t find her way around the Global Space Agency, which she claimed to have visited many times, could she really be trusted to take them to Mars and back?

But Annie was not to be deterred. She dragged them along to another door, which she shoved open. The room was in darkness, apart from an illuminated screen at the front, where a man was pointing to a picture of Saturn.

“And so we can see that the rings of Saturn,” he was saying, “are made up of dust and rocks in orbit around the giant gas planet.”

George thought back to the little rock from Saturn he had once pocketed when he and Annie were riding around the Solar System on a comet. Unfortunately a teacher at George’s school had thought the precious rock was nothing more than a handful of dust and had made George throw it in the trash can. If only! he thought. If only he’d been able to bring that little rock here. What clues about the Universe might they have been able to discover from his fragment of Saturn?

They came to a door marked COMETS, but it was locked.

“Ping-pong!” they heard from inside Annie’s backpack. Cosmos seemed to have switched himself on.

“Cosmos!” said George. “You have to stay quiet! We’re trying to find the Clean Room and we don’t want anyone to notice us.”

“Do I sound like I care?” came the reply.

“Oh, shush!” said George urgently.

“Emmett, make him be quiet!” ordered Annie.

“Actually,” said Emmett, “it would be better to leave him switched on right now. If I close him down and then have to open him up quickly, we might have even more problems.”

“Over there!” said George, spotting a sign on a huge pair of double doors. It read, CLEAN ROOM. “Is that where the suits are?”

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