Grant Cates' wife confronted him with what seemed like an obvious question last February when he told her he had entered the lottery for a seat on Inspiration4 the first all-civilian orbital space mission: How could he be rescued if something went wrong?"I said the worst-case scenario is that something goes wrong and I float around the Earth for a couple of weeks and the air goes bad. But I would get to say goodbye." Unimpressed, his wife said to him that he'd "better figure out a way" to rescue himself, Cates says.
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