Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Space Travels Gone Wrong

With every space launch there's complications, whether it be accidents or incidents resulting in fatality or near-fatality during flight or in training. As of 2013, there have been (18) astronaut and cosmonaut fatalities. Incidents include:


  • Parachute failure
  • Decompression
  • Vehicle Disintegration during launch (the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
  • Vehicle Disintegration during re-entry (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
  • Control failure
  • Fire in altitude chamber
  • Training jet crash
  • Fire during spacecraft test
  • Drowning during water recovery training
  • Spaceship crash during test flight
  • Separation failure
  • Landing capsule sank in water
  • Equipment failure
  • Engine shutdown at launch
  • Spacesuit or airlock design fault
  • Struck twice by lightning during launch
  • Premature engine shutdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZYa9ZKZeDkenablejsapi=1

2 comments:

  1. I will never forget where I was for the Challenger explosion. It's just one of those history making things you remember in life.

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  2. struck twice by lightening! what are the odds of that!

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