But what matters — to the fox as well as the dead astronauts — more than anything, and what can get you through almost anything, are love, intimate connection and joy. But even with that option, a bailout (a "contingency abort") would never be considered when an "intact abort" option exists, and after five minutes of normal flight it would always exist unless a serious flight control failure or some other major problem beyond engine shutdown occurred. There are hints at an explanation for what happens in the first half (possible childhood trauma, climate catastrophe, descent into madness).

The first half seems to be set in some kind of inter-dimensional collision, in which multiple versions of events and places and people intermingle. Estes, 46, was killed while hooking up an 8-inch (20 cm) high-pressure water line, which should not have been pressurized at the time, to the mobile Service structure on Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. Unexpected buildup of pressure caused the coupling to break loose and strike the employee in the head killing him.

The crew of Soyuz 11 were killed after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. VanderMeer aficionados will recognize the Company and its unholy creations from his 2017 novel “ Borne.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In other realities, the Company has been destroyed and the City that serves it has been reduced to a ruin, polluted and rendered alien by vast, voiceless creatures from the quantum void.During debris recovery efforts following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Forest Service employee Charles Krenek of Lufkin, Texas and Pilot Jules F. In the statistics below, the term "astronaut" is used to refer to all space travelers (to avoid the use of "astronaut/cosmonaut"). Quimby, 27, a civilian employee of Wyle Laboratories, was killed and nine others were injured in the accident. VanderMeer puts three in the middle of a strange city somewhere on what appears to be a future Earth, a place where foxes read minds and ducks threaten their interlocutors: “I’ll kill you and feast on your entrails,” one duck says, and, on being challenged about his lab-engendered ducky identity, spits back, “You are not a whatever you are.

The incident resulted in an extensive redesign of the Apollo Command Module, many changes to safety equipment and procedures, and a delay of over a year before a crewed Apollo launch.aboard a Soyuz-U, exploded 29 seconds after launch, killing a soldier, Ivan Marchenko, and injuring 8 others.