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Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Noden the cat makes it home.
  • Red & Rover had a strip after the Columbia disaster where a boy and his dog were sitting in their backyard in a cardboard box they'd painted to resemble a space shuttle and little kiddy space helmets. There's only one speech bubble, where the boy says "Some stars shine brighter than most- to show us all the way.", and in the sky, there are 17 stars, for all the NASA astronauts ever lost while contributing to the space programme.[1]



  1. Namely, the three Apollo 1 astronauts (1967), the seven Challenger astronauts (1986), and the seven Columbia astronauts (2003).