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Need Smaller Astronauts? Five Dubious SF Solutions to the Problem of Astronaut Mass

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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