my project hail mary take is that even though stratt is the one to mention that grace doesn't have any close relationships, that actually tells us more about why grace refused to participate in the mission than it does why stratt chose to send him: grace wasn't her plan A or her plan B; he's just the best option she had left and i'm pretty sure she would have made the same choice if he was married and had 10 kids.
one of the only things we know about the other astronauts is that they did have close relationships— friends, children— and that they were willing volunteers, implicitly because of those relationships. obviously grace has people he cares about and people who care about him, but it's not until he has that kind of deep, tangible connection with rocky (as opposed to a general investment in the fate of humanity) that he's willing to make that type of sacrifice


















