With the sun on the horizon, a blur with a grey coat darted from her house to the extremely large semicircle storage tent.  After slipping into her space suit, she took a potion out of a secure cabinet and threw it on the ground causing her to begin to float up. She began to use her suit to propel her towards the half-completed space shuttle with a tool box.

Astrid jumped and let a tool float up when she heard the knocking. She always forgot there was still air despite the gravity potions. The knock startled her before she propelled herself over a door after securing all her tools back inside the shuttle. "Give me a few minutes!"

The noctral then went into a cabinet and found another magical glass and plugged it into a pipe. After a few moments gravity slowly returned. Well at least enough for her to take a very large leap towards the side entrance to the garage and open it up still wearing her spacesuit.
"Oh hello! Can I help you?"

"Oh! I mean I lived here for only a little bit, but long enough to know my way around. I can help you get back to where you need to be.... and yes." Astrid laughed. "In simple terms i am an astronaut. Sorry that I came out in this, it takes patience and some effort to get out of these suits and I didn't want to keep you waiting too long."

"Oh shoot! You haven't eaten?" Star Cather hops up a little. "Well I'd be happy to fix you up something. I mean... I'm not an amazing chef as you know... I like my fruit... but I leanred a thing or two from my co-workers. Here you see that dome house right behind you? The door is unlocked, head on in and I will take my space suit off and meet you inside."

Star Catcher hurried back into the garage.

Niv would see that inside was one gigantic room. The entire place was covered with blue prints, books papers, broken pencils and chewed up pens. The room was large. Near the end was a pipe ladder that led up to a plat form high up. From where Niv was she could see a messy bed with more notes as well as pictures of various memories. There was a large window (one of the only ones in the room aside from a cirlce on the center of the ceiling). There was a door that seemed to lead out to a balcony.

Astrid finally caught up and pointed to a wooden chair and table by the kitchen that was extremely messy with dishes and apple cores.
"Sorry, I'm such a slob, but I swear the cooking is clean and good." She flashed a smile before heading over. "Oh shoot I got to grab another chair. Sorry! I don't have uhm... friends here so I don't ever need more than one chair ever."

"Oh! Introductions! Offff course!" Astrid was struggling to open an old folding chair and gave up and just wheeled an office chair over. "My name is Astrid! But the name I got at EASEA is Star Catcher. Pleasure to meet you!" The Noctral headed to the stove and heated a pot of water and threw some spaghetti noodles. After a few moments, she returned with two plates of steaming spaghetti. "Here you are. This is probably the best kind of food you are going to get from me."

"Well, they gave me two labs that I could work at, one being here and the other being with the main facilities in Canterlot. I come here pretty often to work on the space shuttle. That and stare at the beautiful nights that Ponyville has to offer, I know it's similar to Canterlot, but that city is loud and noisy at nights occasionally, it's so peaceful here." Astrid took a bite. "Where do you work around here?"

"Well I help design and improve our current space shuttles which can only be used to repair things within our planet's orbit. Thought one day I would love to travel back to the moon again." Her eyes glanced at the picture of her old crew but she quickly returned her gaze back to Niv. "Ohh that's certainly interesting, how did you get into that." 

"That is incredible Niv. She would be very proud of you today." Star Catcher looked at Niv with sympathetic eyes. "Oh stop, what you are doing is incredible. I don't understand any of that stuff. Astrid looked back at the picture of her crew. "Space and the moon...  It was so surreal. My first trip there was a dream come true. I was one of the first Noctrals that stepped hoof on the moon without the use of magic to get there. Of course at time i didn't know that. There's footage of it everywhere.. Unfortunately... such a perfect trip didn't end happily..." Astrid cut herself off and dropped the fork she was twirling.