5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories

Posted by Miss Cellania in Science & Tech on October 30, 2009 at 2:47 pm


There are no aliens in these stories from NASA and the Soviet space program, just true tales of how being an astronaut is no picnic. Decompression? Landing in the wrong place? Using the toilet without a toilet? Not pleasant!

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard wet his pants aboard Freedom 7, but Apollo bathroom facilities would get a lot worse before they got any better. I don’t think I’m the only guy to find something fundamentally frightening about a urinal that consists only of a “condom-like fitting,” a valve and the empty void of outer space. I keep thinking about that scene from “Goldfinger.”

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2 comments to "5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories"

  1. Ray
    October 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    "Well, I'm a wetback now."

  2. Jerse
    October 31st, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Here's something else that's neat and related: The theory of the Lost Cosmonauts.

    People believe that the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was the first man in space on 4/12/1961 - but what was more likely was that he was the first man to survive coming back from space. There were probably half a dozen other people who died trying to be the first in space, and whose deaths were covered up by the Soviets.

    It might be pure hearsay, but it is pretty neat Wikipedia has an article on it located here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_cosmonauts


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