He never returned.*

 Oh he never returned, and his fate is still unlearned... He will ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston, he's the man who never returned!

The astronauts up trapped up there on what was supposed to be one-week jaunt ("a three-hour tour... a three-hour tour", as the Gilligan's Island theme song taunted...) look to be in good spirits. Crazy hair!

But... you gotta wonder if they worry that they'll ever make it home alive.  Incompetence in government affects some more than others. (that's why if you can help it ladies, don't give your kid a "government daddy".  When they're grown, they either have to enlist or take a prison cell for further care...)

Nobody is saying it either, but... they are both (the woman especially) taking years off their bodies when they return to earth and their bodies have to adjust to so much unplanned time up there.  Maybe we're just using them as a science experiment?  It can't be good what zero gravity is doing to their bodies (and bones!)

All that money spent, and we leave people behind...

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*If you know the song, you know the song. If you came up in a singing family, or with a good mother who sang to you, you just might!