One of her colleagues called her over so she said to Josh and his friends, ‘You stay here. ‘Then she went to her workstation.
Between the visitors’ gallery and the huge screen showing live pictures form China there were rows and rows of long benches. Almost all of the experts in the Spaceguard control room were sitting in from of ghostly voices, mostly speaking English in Chinese accents. It seemed that all systems were coming up to operational status exactly as planned.
Zack looked at the screen for a for seconds but he was more interested in the pages and pages of calculations that he saw on the end of one the desks. While everyone else eyed the rocker, he was scanning the dense lines of figures.
Josh felt his heart beating faster as if he were part of the team rather than simply watching helplessly. For some reason, he found himself clutching Dave’s hand.
A voice declared, ‘Ready for countdown. The hopes of the human race rest on this mission.