Planetshine was out in Ponyville, trying to get ponies to volunteer to go on the space station for research and whatnot. She had found six different creatures, one of them a pony. They were quick graduates from the school of friendship, graduating in a few months after their first day over there.

As they all were curious about what is outside of Equestria and more, they agreed to be astronauts, which meant they would go outside of Equestria, a long way out of Equestria. Planetshine invited them to go to the space center for a tour, and report to the administration and sign up to be real astronauts that would actually go into space.

The 5 creatures and 1 pony boarded the Friendship Express to Canterlot, which they will then walk to the space center. 'It's a long walk, but we will get there,' Planetshine said.

'We can fly instead,' Silverstream replied.'

'What about Yona and Sandbar?' Planetshine asked.

'Let's just walk instead, we can talk about things for the time being,' Sandbar responded.

Once they finally walked over to the space center, which was only a 15-minute walk from Canterlot, Planetshine walked into the administration building, telling the others to stay outside. Once Planetshine told the administration building about the 6 other 'astronauts,' she welcomed them into the administration building. From there, they signed a few pieces of paper and an agreement that they were willing to go to places outside of Equestria, way out of Equestria.

Once they finished signing the papers, they were officially astronauts. Now they just had to do training, which would be one of the hard parts of being an astronaut. Training included medical training, basic science knowledge, jetpack training, and learning how to fly planes and spacecraft and more. All of which was done throughout one week.

Equestrian Aerospace declared them as the young six, being newbie astronauts and being young in general compared to the others. The first thing they had to do was medical training, as it was one of the most important things, as astronauts didn't need to fly spacecraft. They learned quickly, as pretty much every pony would, but that was only basic medical training, nothing like what doctors would.

The next thing they had to do was EVA training. The young six had to put on spacesuits and then they had to go in the space center's pool located just outside the administration building. The pool was pretty deep, at about 3m, but wearing a spacesuit meant that everyone was going to be fine. The spacesuits used were a bit different from the ones used in outer space. The ones used for training didn't have any jetpacks, which was pretty much useless because there were pretty much weightless up in space.

Next, the had to do jetpack training, which they had to use simulators to do, as emulating microgravity in a place that there was gravity was nearly impossible, unless they were in a plane that was falling from the sky. All of them had hiccups doing it on their first try, but once they got the hang of it, it got easier and easier.

Then they had to do learn basic science knowledge. This was the part they all hated, except Silverstream and Yona, which they were sort of ok with. They had to learn how to do the experiments, do basic observations, and learn how to transmit them or store them. Silverstream was the one that focused on it, as she was pretty interested in it after a little while of learning it. Plus they would also learn about orbital mechanics and orbital rendezvous and docking.

After that, they had to learn how to withstand high G forces. They were spun in a centrifuge that would simulate higher gravities than normal 1G. They started at 1.2G, and they would work their way up and up, the target was withstanding over 5G and over 10G for short bursts of time, as sometimes, that would happen during reentry. Once they were finished with all that, they would rest for the rest of the day, usually for the remainder of the day as training would last only about 2 hours.

For the 6th day of training, they would have to learn how to fly planes and spacecraft, planes being new as spaceplanes exist now after C7 constructed a single stage to orbit spaceplane. They would start out on flying spacecraft in simulators, but then after that, they would start to fly normal planes just to get used to the controls that they would face when flying spaceplanes or rockets. The next day would just be a day of pure relaxation as they had endured 6 days of training and only a little bit of rest.

The training program would last one month, and once that was complete, they would pick what they would be, a pilot, an engineer, or a scientist. When all the young six finished the basic training, which Gallus and Smoulder nearly quitted, they were able to pick what they would be. Gallus and Sandbar, pilots, Smoulder and Ocellus, engineers, and Silverstream and Yona, scientists.

They now just had to do 1 month of extra training with courses detailing the different things. All of them didn't want to do it, but they all needed to do it unless they didn't want to go into outer space and to places like the moon or other planets, so they did it. Once all that training was complete, they all did the test that would make them real astronauts, but if they fail them, they would be rejected as astronauts unless they did more training. Thank goodness for the young six, they all passed the test, and now they are all astronauts.

Author's Note

I think I might rewrite this, I just don't think this chapter is good enough in some parts.