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The International Space Station, as seen by a visiting spacecraft in 2021. This article is a list of accidents and incidents related to the International Space Station (ISS). It includes mishaps occurring on board the ISS, flights to and from the space station, as well as other program related incidents.
On Christmas Eve, 1968 astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman read from the Book of Genesis as Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. [3] A lawsuit by American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair alleged that the observance amounted to a government endorsement of religion in violation of the First Amendment, [4] but the case was dismissed.
[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore, wearing Boeing spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 5, 2024.
Two US astronauts blasted off on June 5 aboard a brand new spaceship that was supposed to return a week later, but are still there now, at 36-days and counting.
Now, Wilmore and Williams may be stuck in space for another five months. But during a press conference on Friday, Sept. 13, Willmore said he was “absolutely not” let down to know the ship made ...
The vessel, loaded with waste detached from the space station and Cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev took manual control. As he steered the craft back to the station he lost control due to a miscalculation in the mass of waste loaded onto the cargo vessel, and it crashed into the Spektr module, damaging a solar panel and puncturing Mir's hull. [ 4 ]
Right now, most missions and man-made objects in space remain in low earth orbit. The stranded astronauts are currently stuck about 250 miles above us, where the International Space Station is ...