This week's longer story is a cracking hard science fiction tale of an astronaut who happens to be on a space walk to fix something on his cargo rocket on the way from Earth to the orbiting space station when a meteor impacts it and he gets blasted away from his rocket. Since everyone now presumes him dead he is completely on his own in his space suit and with only some debris and a cargo cannister filled for the most part by toiletries for the space station crew close by... how to cope when stuck in an elliptical orbit around the Earth with less than twelve hours of air left in his suit, and no hope of rescue?
The original blurb: “Far” is strictly a relative term. Half a world away from home is, sometimes, no distance at all!
Stories of Futures Past
This week's longer story is a cracking hard science fiction tale of an astronaut who happens to be on a space walk to fix something on his cargo rocket on the way from Earth to the orbiting space station when a meteor impacts it and he gets blasted away from his rocket. Since everyone now presumes him dead he is completely on his own in his space suit and with only some debris and a cargo cannister filled for the most part by toiletries for the space station crew close by... how to cope when stuck in an elliptical orbit around the Earth with less than twelve hours of air left in his suit, and no hope of rescue?
The original blurb:
“Far” is strictly a relative term. Half a world away from home is, sometimes, no distance at all!
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