Would 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 ob

Would 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.