Space Disasters
After the soviet union launched sputnik.
Space disasters. Collision in space 25 june 1997. The us soviet space race had many notable successes but some deadly catastrophes too. Space disasters are failures of technology design and management leading to tragic loss of life. The russian soyuz 11 is probably best known for being the first mission to board a space station salyut 1.
Tragically it is also known as the first and only mission to result in human death in outer space. The shuttle was launched from kennedy space centre and the crew was to stay in space for two weeks conducting various experiments in a dedicated pod called spacehab. In fact most of the deadliest disasters happen on earth during the preparation phase where. At mir during a re docking test with the progress m 34 cargo freighter the progress freighter collided with the spektr module and solar arrays of the mir space station.
This is due to the vast amounts of effort planning intelligence and energy that go into space flight. This space disaster took place in 2003 and was one of the most shocking since it came after the shuttle had completed its mission on the way to re entry into the atmosphere of earth. Crew of columbia on its last mission crew of the space shuttle columbia left to right. The shuttle broke up catastrophically on february 1 2003 killing all aboard.
Despite the massive amount of attention that surrounds space flight disasters only four have actually happened in space and only 18 people have died in space 14 astronauts and four cosmonauts. Between the explosions of the challenge and columbia space shuttles and the tragic deaths of the apollo 1. The 5 deadliest disasters of the space race. David brown rick husband laurel clark kalpana chawla michael anderson william mccool and ilan ramon.
This damaged the solar arrays and the collision punctured a hole in the spektr module and the space station began depressurizing. Spacexs starship rocket explodes in huge blow watch elon musk has suffered a huge blow after his spacex starship rocket which aims to one day deliver humans to mars blew.