The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he once Loved in the Former Soviet Union is a 1999 drama play in two acts written by Scottish playwright David Greig. It was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The play tells the story of two Soviet cosmonauts stranded aboard their space station without any contact with Earth, a Scottish civil servant who disappears amid a midlife crisis, his wife, a speech therapist, looking for him, a Norwegian peace negotiator, a French UFO researcher and a Russian erotic dancer. Through these stories, the play explores themes of globalization, alienation, identity, loss and love. It was inspired by the real-life story of Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev who was trapped on board Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.