Beautiful and inspired prose. The whole piece reads like a poem and gives me the impression that the narrator is floating while looking at the stars. It is bittersweet and romantic. Humans are on the threshold of space, and this story may yet come to pass. Excellent!
Thanks so much. Have you read Station Eleven? It's only this morning that I think of that book and the spaceman character.
I have not read it, but it sounds like my kind of book. Will check it out. :)
It's rather beautiful. They did a good job of the series too.