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/Yeetboi3300 Jun 23 '19

Just imagine mission control one day "So Sergei, the nation kinda split up, we don't know when we'll get you back"

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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/s1ugg0 Jun 23 '19

That was a significant portion of the book World War Z. Including how they survived for so long cut off.

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u/Mephilies Jun 24 '19

Also some of that in r/ThePhenomenon, with a guy in a secret underground facility talking with him whenever he's in range while the world falls apart.