Due to the large pressure drop, the depressurisation chamber could not be opened quickly. In an atmosphere of almost pure oxygen, the fire spread instantly. Cotton wool fell on the included electric stove, and a fire started. On 23rd March 1961, Soviet astronaut Valentin Bondarenko, finishing a 10-day test, took off his medical sensors, wiped his skin with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, and carelessly threw it away.
As a rule, the oxygen level in the chamber is increased and the pressure is lowered to imitate conditions similar to those on a spacecraft. Staying in the depressurisation chamber is one of the astronaut training stages. Fatal space travel disastersĪs of the beginning of 2022, there have been five fatal incidents during space flights, in which 19 astronauts were lost in space and four more astronauts died on Earth in preparation for the flight. Orbital Today collected the sad statistics of space travel deaths and astronaut deaths in preparation for spaceflight. Has anyone died in space? Unfortunately, yes. In the USSR, Vostok was followed by Voskhod and Soyuz, while in the USA, it was Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle.Īs a result, almost 600 astronauts have been in orbit in 60 years. This event gave impetus to the great space race that began three years earlier and stimulated the development of manned astronaut programmes. The Vostok-1 spacecraft made one orbit around the Earth and landed safely in Russia 108 minutes after launch. The space exploration era has begun in the second half of the last century, but how many astronauts have died during this time? On 12th April 1961, Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin made the world’s first manned space flight.
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