The ships airlock

She decided to head to the airlock first, just to make sure that the ship was securely attached. Grimacing at the memory of one time when she woke up in zero-G with chunks of the asteroid still dug into the ship, Victoria turned right down the hallway.

As she reached the padlocked door, she fiddled with some of the switches next to it, pressurizing the chamber. She opened a door, the small hiss of air from the imperfect pressure system no longer worrying to her. Walk floating into the chamber, she stood in front of the mirror that she had hung up in there ever since she fell into a mud pit and didn’t know it until the chamber pressurized and it all fell off her body and onto the floor of the ship.

It had been a while since she had taken a look at herself. Personal hygiene wasn’t exactly something that was important when traversing the stars, especially when it was a one-woman ship. But still, now that she was settled down for a little bit, she would take the opportunity to clean up. Pinching some of the dirty blonde strands in between her fingers, she scowled internally at the thin sheen of grease that it left on her fingers.

She doesn’t have what she would describe as dreadlocks, but her shoulder length blonde hair tended to clump together, especially when under the influence of zero-G. She looked down at her body, sporting gray undergarments that she normally wore when piloting. A gray sports bra and a matching pair of boxer-briefs. They were a bit discolored, no doubt from the asteroid belt that nearly killed her multiple times on the way into the system she was currently in.

Victoria decided not to inspect her body anymore, feeling glad that no one else could see her in this state. She shrugged and turned away, telling herself that being a female ore miner was never going to be easy.

As she grabbed the space-suit, she made a mental note to set up the matter converter. She deserved at least a long shower after her initial exploration.

With the baggy suit on and properly sealed, she shut the chamber door and let the chamber depressurize, and with one last check that her suit was working properly, she threw open the hull door and out onto the asteroid.