(Deleted chapter from current project) The trip had been on one of your first sub-orbital spacecraft, back when you were still experimenting with piggy-backing rocketships to the edge of space by carrying them on specially adapted aircraft. The rocket had been designed by your business partner, who was a grizzled former test pilot and engineer … Continue reading You liked to remind people that you’d been to space – even though the actual experience had lasted for less than five minutes and had ended in shame and embarrassment for everyone involved →