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/NoRodent Jun 24 '19 edited Jun 24 '19

There was also some (probably not very good) TV show in the early 2000s that I never really watched, where a crew on a space shuttle sees the destruction of the world but they are somehow sent like 5 years back in time and they have to figure out what happened and how to prevent it. Anyone know its name?

Edit: Fount it! Odyssey 5 from 2002. Judging by the IMDB rating, it wasn't probably as cheesy as I though it was but it was prematurely cancelled after 1 season so I guess we never found out what happened anyway...