 Why does Mickey decide not to go into space?
Spacemen Die at Home By EDWARD W. LUDWIG Illustrated by THORNE For it was June in this year of 1995, and we were the graduating class of the U. S. Academy of Interplanetary Flight. My parents had died in a strato-jet crash when I was four, so I hadn't needed many of those "You are cordially invited" cards. He was a veteran of Everson's first trip to the Moon nearly twenty-five years ago, and he was still at it. Usually Mickey was the same whether in a furnace-hot engine room or a garden party, smiling, accepting whatever the world offered. You and Mickey looked strangely at Charlie, and I realized that old Stardust was not a cadet's notion of the ideal spaceman.
 Mickey thinks that if he goes into space he'll only live another five to ten years. Space travel is dangerous.
 Mickey was offered a job as Chief Jetman on the Lunar Lady.  Mickey was offered a job at the Academy teaching astrogation.  Mickey thinks that if he goes into space he'll only live another five to ten years. Space travel is dangerous.  Mickey was offered a job as Chief Jetman on the White Sands.