Alan E. Nourse’s old science fiction tale [del]Scavengers in Space[/del]Rocket to Limbo begins with the phrase ad astra. And it’s a conventional slower-than-light-speed “generation” star ship in the first chapter, which disappears never to be seen nor heard from again, a mystery to the generations to follow.
The current sci fi film Ad Astra is apparently about a lower-than-light ship that, umm, takes off and disappears, never to be seen nor heard from again, a mystery to the generations to follow.
As far as I can tell, though, Ad Astra is not based on Scavengers.
Did anyone else make the same surmise / wonder about the same connection?
ETA: dammit, not Scavengers in Space, it’s the Nourse book Rocket To Limbo that I’m thinking of! (could a mod change the misleading thread title, perhaps?)
I have no idea, but it’s sure great to see a reference to him nearly 30 years after his too-soon death. Alan Nourse, MD wrote one of my favorite books, “Intern” as Doctor X; he revealed about a decade after its publication that he was its author.
It blows me away how many people have read it and remember it; I mentioned it in passing on another board and (I kid you not) most of the people there had indeed read it. It was about his mid-1950s residency in Seattle, Washington, published in 1965.