If there was a misfiring, the astronauts might miss Earth and be doomed.
It was certain that he'd never go home again, but if he missed Earth he didn't show it.
I don't miss Earth at all-isn't that odd?
It is soon calculated, though, that the object will miss Earth.
She said, "You still don't miss Earth, do you, Ben?"
And in a sense they were proved correct: Opik missed Earth by a million and a quarter miles.
If some other world does the fighting, and loses, the Pak may still miss Earth for awhile.
It had luckily missed Earth, but that was the end of the luck.
Space swallows the 99.999999955 percent of the Sun's light that misses Earth, and most is lost to the interstellar void.