Legacy MattersHis mother died in an auto accident, but Daniel Tani won't be able to go to her funeral. He's in orbit, aboard the international space station.
It's a heartbreaking situation no other American astronaut has experienced. And it's made all the more tragic by Tani's devotion to his mother, Rose, who raised him and his siblings alone in suburban Chicago after their father died when he was 4.
Astronaut mourns from orbit.