The story is about an astronaut that dies in his spaceship, and in his death throes, he slumps forward and activates the vessel's engine, which propels him into the vastness of space. Eventually, the gravitational attraction of a planet pulls his vessel into its orbit, and he is retrieved by the planet's inhabitants. The inhabitants, finding him deceased, resurrect him, giving the voyager a second chance at life. The story is about the astronaut that is given a new "lease on life."