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A squirrel monkey defeats the competition and fulfills her dream of becoming an astronaut. Based on the true story of Miss Baker, one of the first animals to be launched into space in 1959.
In the near future, two men—a quiet, rule-following biologist and a swashbuckling engineer—are tasked with a decades-long mission to colonize a planet outside the Solar System. But in the spaceship’s close quarters, tensions bubble up until one man decides he is going to kill the other.
An explorer tells the tale of his time on another planet before making a strange request.
In the near future where NASA is defunded and only private corporations have the infrastructure for space travel, a former NASA astronaut gains favor with one such corporation to send a mission to Mars, but then crash lands in an accident that may have been intentional sabotage by the company who funded their trip.
A thirteen-year-old space fanatic's day is made when he meets his astronaut role model, but he soon learns that his hero is not who he thought.
Online, space ship storytellers discuss why they tell stories for a living—and how to do it right.
An aging astronaut must make an impossible decision- fly her last mission, or remain at home for her dying husband's final days.
After a devastating accident in space, a young astronaut constantly underwhelmed by her own achievements is forced to make a long, arduous trek back to her ship while dragging the corpse of her more impressive partner.
A space pilot ordered to annihilate a human colony contemplates sabotaging the mission, but the autopilot on the ship maintains the course.
A brief but ill-fated spark flares between an earth-roaming Spacer and a local frelk.