True Story!
Ground Control to Major Tom
Hey, bus driver!
When I researched remarkable and sensational ways someone met their end, this tale was at the top of the search.
Kick the bucket, bought the farm, went to the great beyond
Why go out as a lame euphemism? Why not go for a long walk amongst the stars?
Editor’s note: Dr. Ronald C. Mooman, a renowned NASA psychiatrist, first published this story in Space Today. I rewrote it more conversationally, as his version was full of unintelligible science babble.
Major Thomas Badas was an astronaut and was getting really, really tired of flying up to the moon and back to Earth. The repetitive madness of up and down, up and down. He would soon snap with the stress.
Now pause here, readers!
I was doubting this story, too. Humans have only been to the moon six times.
Then I read Elon Musk’s old Twitter feeds, and he seemed to be bragging about going to the moon so many times that he was thinking about having a beach house built near the Sea of Tranquility.
Major Tom was working for SpaceX!
“You see the moon the first time, and it’s a thrill,” Tom said to his wife over dinner back on…
