What if an astronaut on the moon refused to go back to Earth?

(Edit) As the question states, it's a “what if” history, meaning it's fiction (mr. Aldrin is alive and well at the time I'm writing this). read more

Thirdly, provided NASA and the US government even *admitted* that an astronaut went space happy and refused to come back from the moon, an astronaut staying on the moon instead of coming home would seriously damage NASA’s reputation. read more

The Space Station and visiting it involved more challenges when the Space Station was new than when visiting the Moon was new. read more