Three cheers for Module 6: Careers and the Lifepath system walking hand in hand to create astronauts that dies of old age before they get in space, this is the true Traveller way! That new cover art is disturbing in a nice kind of fashion, humanity diverging down different paths is already explored with the old art, but this one is really damned drastic.
... Hold on, Lifepath continues throughout the game? I gotta read a little more, Traveller lifepath is something of a "Roll and Done" thing.