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The crew of Soyuz 11 died after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A cabin vent valve construction defect caused it to open at service module separation. The recovery team found the crew dead. These three are, as of 2025, the only human fatalities in space (above 100 kilometers (330,000 ft)). [4] [5]
When the pressure was equalized between the ships, the locks were opened and all three members of the crew passed into Salyut 1. [2] Soyuz 11 successfully docked with Salyut 1 on 7 June 1971 and the cosmonauts remained on board for 22 days, setting space endurance records that would hold until the American Skylab 2 mission in May and June 1973. [9]
Piper Laurie, 3-Time Oscar Nominee and Twin Peaks Alum, Dead at 91. The actor’s post-Lost in Space career included appearances on The Mod Squad, Adam-12, Benson and The Doctors, among other ...
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board.It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
In it, a Space Shuttle crew on a mission to repair a communications satellite encounters a derelict Soviet spacecraft with a dead crew—the result of a secret attempt to beat the United States to the Moon in the 1960s. Tom Nowicki played Major Andrei Mikoyan, a Russian member of the Space Shuttle crew in the story. [29]
All five men on board the missing Titan submersible were declared dead after it was found that the craft imploded near the site of the shipwreck, authorities announced Thursday.. OceanGate ...
the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure. [17] Pressurization could have enabled consciousness for the entire fall until impact. The crew cabin hit the ocean surface at 207 mph (333 km/h) approximately two minutes and 45 seconds after breakup.
The mission crew continued their work as a part of Expedition 71/72 and will return with SpaceX Crew-9 that was launched with two crew members instead of planned four. [87] June 24: US EVA-90 spacewalk lasted for only 31 minutes due to a water leak in the umbilical unit connected to Tracy Dyson's spacesuit shortly after opening the airlock ...