Marooned story
Three astronauts become trapped and slowly suffocate in space.
10 total · 3 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| orbital spaceflight | major | Three astronauts blasted off from Earth on an extended mission aboard an experimental orbital laboratory. |
| risk taking vs. playing it safe | major | The President stepped in and unilaterally decided to go ahead with a risky attempt to rescue the suffocating astronauts. |
| stranded in outer space | major | While three astronauts were returning to Earth after a long mission aboard an experimental orbital lab, a malfunction occurred, trapping them in their reentry module where they slowly began to suffocate. |
| choosing who dies and who lives | minor | The three astronauts faced the prospect of having to select one of them to be killed so that the remaining two would have enough oxygen left to breathe until the rescue team arrived. |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | minor | The astronauts wives were on pins and needles wondering whether or not their husbands would make it back to Earth safely. |
| husband and wife | minor | Jim Pruett and Celia Pruett. Buzz Lloyd and Betty Lloyd. |
| risk taking in the advancement of science and technology | minor | Charles Keith was adamant to reporters that NASA was right to have sent the three astronauts into space, even if they perished, because it was part of a larger aspiration to reach the stars. |
| romantic love | minor | Jim Pruett and Buzz Lloyd made proclamations of love to their respective wives. |
| space station | minor | Three astronauts are the first crew of an experimental orbital laboratory on an extended duration mission. |
| what if I found myself in a zero gravity environment | minor | The astronauts were floating about in the orbital laboratory. |