An Old Astronaut lives in his depressing, lonely world but seeks the sadistic opportunity to end his loneliness. He conjures up a pitch to NASA to travel through space to land on one of the last untouched planets, while actually planning to crash into the planet itself. The man takes the journey but is welcomed by dark irony as his crash does not work out. He returns to Earth attempting a similar crash but receives a similar failure, only to end up surviving the entire expedition. Upon his survival, the Old Astronaut comes to the realization that the entire human population has died through worldwide pollution, leaving him to his own dark reality that his dramatic plan has led him to the only life left.