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* CassandraTruth: Gordo's wife assumes his seeing a shrink is just an excuse for an affair.

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* CallBack: In [[Recap/ForAllMankindS01E07HiBob "Hi Bob"]], Ed mentions having a bottle of Chivas Regal under lock and key at Jamestown. We see him necking it at the end of the episode as he drowns his sorrows.
* CareerVersusMan: Thanks to Margo's mentorship, Aleida is accepted to a prodigious maths and physics program, putting her on the fast track to work at NASA someday... ''just'' as she's started a relationship with a boy at her current school. Margo tries to impress upon her that she'll have to work ten times as hard as any of the men to be accepted, and that means leaving behind anything "distracting".
* CassandraTruth: Gordo's wife Tracy assumes his seeing a shrink is just an excuse for an affair.


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* HopeSpot: When Karen gets in contact with Dr. Weddle, the neurologist who works with NASA, to get a second opinion, he seems more optimistic about Shane's condition and his chances of recovery.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ed thinks the condolences sent to him by the Soviets are some kind of trick or mind game
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The commander of the Soviet base sends a fax to Ed about the news of his son out of genuine sympathy.

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ed thinks the condolences sent to him by the Soviets are some kind of trick or mind game
game (which, in all fairness, it may have been).
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The commander of the Soviet base sends a fax to Ed about the news of his son out of (possibly) genuine sympathy.
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* CassandraTruth: Gordo's wife assumes his seeing a shrink is just an excuse for an affair.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The commander of the Soviet base sends a fax to Ed about the news of his son out of genuine sympathy.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The commander of the Soviet base sends a fax to Ed about the news of his son out of genuine sympathy.sympathy.
* TokenMinority: A pair of astronauts clearly sum up the feelings of many in the public on how Harry and Ellen were chosen simply to check off "boxes" with the public.
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* MyGreatestRegret: Karen is filled with guilt that her last encounter with her son was to slap him in the face and yell at him.

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* MyGreatestRegret: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Karen is filled with guilt that her last encounter with her son was to slap him in the face and yell at him.
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* MyGreatestRegret: Karen is filled with guilt that her last encounter with her son was to slap him in the face and yell at him.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ed thinks the condolences sent to him by the Soviets are some kind of trick or mind game
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While NASA prepares a relief mission, Karen awaits devastating news in the hospital.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* DeathOfAChild: Shane is rendered brain-dead from the accident and soon dies.
* DrowningMySorrows: Ed does this after learning that Shane has died.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The commander of the Soviet base sends a fax to Ed about the news of his son out of genuine sympathy.

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