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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Titan on February 01, 2003, 10:30:31 AM

Title: Space Disasters
Post by: Titan on February 01, 2003, 10:30:31 AM

I found this link of space disasters from the start of space exploration. It seems we have had a lot more than thought. Although most of them are just satellite rockets. Russia lost a lot of people. They\'ve lost 90 at a time.

http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=1&cat=0200&id=03020112351997765

Title: Space Disasters
Post by: luckee on February 01, 2003, 10:48:25 AM

Ive read or heard about most of those. Im surprised there are so many actually. Seems pretty even amongst the countries too.

Title: Space Disasters
Post by: Titan on February 01, 2003, 10:50:43 AM

We lost more craft, Russia lost more people. I didn\'t even know about too many of those.

Title: Space Disasters
Post by: Coredweller on February 01, 2003, 11:41:46 AM

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June 1971 -- Three Soviet cosmonauts die during re-entry after 24 days in an orbiting space laboratory, a record endurance flight at that time.

This one was described in the book Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error by Steven M. Casey.  That is one of the scariest books I\'ve ever read.  It describes dozens of cases where poorly designed human/machine interfaces resulted in horrific loss of life.  As I recall, the cosmonauts experienced a loss of atmosphere in their capsule on reentry.  They could have tightened the hatch the air was escaping from, but the threading on the wheel that tightened the hatch required so many revolutions that it could never be closed within the time that a human could remain conscious without oxygen.  Just a simple and incredibly stupid design flaw that no one considered.  :)