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> Three decades later, he still misses it like hell I can’t imagine what it must be like to go to space as a profession, and then need to leave or retire. A bi
by sailfast 7y ago
> Three decades later, he still misses it like hell
I can’t imagine what it must be like to go to space as a profession, and then need to leave or retire. A bittersweet thing, to be sure.
- howard941 7y agoWould you like to read some moving fiction about it? _Phases of Gravity_ by Dan Simmons takes it head-on with an astronaut whose days flying are over. More obliquely a national loss of space capability is taken on by Norman Spinrad in _Russian Spring_. Both great reads, and sad.