We become fidgety and desperate if our flight or train gets rescheduled, leaving us stranded. What happens when your planned short eight-day space trip becomes unduly extended to nine months because the return flight gets cancelled at the last moment?
In an uncanny, although partial, mirroring of the plot of the recent film The Martian, a rallying cry for space enthusiasts for recent months has been to bring two astronauts back from the space station, where they have been unduly marooned for months. Beyond space enthusiasts too, many people’s thoughts have been with the forlorn astronauts.
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