I'm really enjoying the subbed versions. The show was comprehensible enough without them for me to enjoy it, and now that I'm getting them it's like I get to discover each episode all over again.
The people who wrote the show had to have seen and/or read
The Right Stuff. Yukari's frustration with all the launch delays looked a lot like what the Mercury astronauts went through.
Actually, Yukari might have fit right in with the Mercury Seven.