Space+Travel+Disasters

=__**Space Travel Disasters**__= __**By Daniel Greer and James Yang**__

1967 apollo 1 3 astronauts died in a flash fire during a simulation launch

Soviet cosmonaut is the first person to die in a space mission when the parachutes on his rocked failed during re entry



1970 April 13: //equipment failure//: In the most celebrated "near miss", the Apollo 13 crew came home safely after a violent rupture of a liquid oxygen tank[3] deprived the Service Module of its ability to produce electrical power, crippling their spacecraft en route to the moon. They survived the loss of use of their command ship by relying on the Lunar Module as a "life boat" to provide life support and power for the trip home.

1971 June 30: //crew exposed to vacuum of space//: The crew of Soyuz 11, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov, were killed after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A valve on their spacecraft had accidentally opened when the service module separated, which was only discovered when the module was opened by the recovery team. Technically the only fatalities //in space// (above 100 km). 

1986 Challenger famous because of its civilian crew member teacher Christa McAuliffe it had suffered 3 delays and after 73 seconds into the flight it exploded in the air due to hydrogen leakage caused by faulty o ring seals 

1997 June 25: //collision in space//: 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 damaged the solar arrays and the collision punctured a hole in the Spektr module and the space station began depressurizing. The on-board crew of two Russians and one visiting NASA astronaut were able to close off the Spektr module from the rest of Mir after quickly cutting cables and hoses blocking hatch closure.

2003 February 1: //structural failure during re-entry//: The Space Shuttle //Columbia// was lost as it reentered after a two-week mission, STS-107. Damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS) led to structural failure in the shuttle's left wing and, ultimately, the spacecraft broke apart. Investigations after the tragedy revealed the damage to the reinforced carbon-carbon leading edge wing panel had resulted from a piece of insulation foam breaking away from the external tank during the launch and hitting shuttle's wing.

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