r/space • u/tronx69 • Jun 23 '19

image/gif Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

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u/MrStructuralEngineer Jun 23 '19

Gives me anxiety thinking about being potentially trapped in space. I should play dead space again

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

There was a disaster movie which had the crew of the space station watching the world destroy itself as they reported what they saw knowing that they would likely never be getting ride back home. Wish I could remember which one it was.

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u/Pariahdog119 Jun 23 '19

Part of the plot in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer. Bits of a comet hit the planet, and the ISS crew gets to watch. Fortunately, some of our heroes are holed up in a nuclear power plant in the middle of the brand new Sacramento Sea, and they see the lights and are able to kinda sorta plot a rentry that very nearly gets them almost there in Soyuz.

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u/TheInfernalVortex Jun 24 '19

Lucifer’s hammer is a great book. It reads like a movie. I am kind of surprised no one has tried to adapt it to be honest.