2023/070: The Last Astronaut — David Wellington
Friday, June 16th, 2023 07:19 am2023/070: The Last Astronaut — David Wellington
After NASA went bankrupt in the forties, they had to break up the second International Space Station and drop its pieces in the Pacific Ocean. After that, commercial spaceflight seemed like the only game in town. [loc. 301]
Sally Jansen is the eponymous last astronaut. In 2034, on a mission to Mars, she dealt with a critical failure but caused the death of a fellow astronaut. That was pretty much the end for NASA in terms of crewed missions: but now, years later, a mysterious object has entered the solar system and is slowing down.( Read more... )