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Inside Close Calls

  • World's first space walk (credits: wikimedia)Lost in Space: the First Space Walk
  • ISS Ammonia Leak, a False Alarm?
  • 2010 EVA in which astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson replaced the same pump over the course of three EVA (Credits: NASA).ISS Experiences Coolant Loop Shutdown
  • Basic Safety Measures Ignored in Plesetsk Fatal Accident
  • Cosmonauts Zudov (right) and Rozhdestvensky spent 1.5 hours trying to writhe and cut themselves out of their pressure suits (Credits: Joachim Becker / SpaceFacts.de).A Watery Yarn: The Unlucky Voyage of Soyuz 23 (Part 2)
  • Artist’s impression of the flashing beacon atop the Soyuz 23 descent module attracting the attention of a rescue helicopter. The spacecraft performed the Soviet Union’s first (unintended) water splashdown in the icy Lake Tengiz (Credits: Joachim Becker / SpaceFacts.de).A Watery Yarn: The Unlucky Voyage of Soyuz 23 (Part 1)
  • A fire shows where the Proton-M crashed at Baikonour Cosmodrome on July 1. The combustion of 600 tons of fuel may have prevented a more serious environmental catastrophe (Credits: Roscosmos/Vesti.ru).Update on Proton-M Launch Failure Fall-out
  • Live footage of Proton-M launch failure on July 1, 2013 (Credits: TSENKI).Repercussions of Proton-M's Fiery Launch Failure
  • Spaceflight Incidents and Close Calls in Human Spaceflight
  • Video: Soyuz 5 Multiple Reentry Failure
  • Lessons Learned: Mir Collision
  • Historical Incidents: The Mir Fire
  • The Soyuz Crew Escape System
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Browse The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

  • Evidence of foam loss preceding the disastrous Shuttle Columbia reentry (Credits: NASA)How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
  • Remembering Columbia
  • Learning from Columbia
  • Remnants of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, stored in the RLV hangar at Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA).Organizational Factors of the Columbia Disaster
  • The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety
  • Columbia And The Day of Remembrance
  • Sixteen Minutes from Home
  • STS-107: Columbia's Lost Crew
  • Columbia debris reconstructionTimeline of the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia Disaster Recommended Reading
  • Sacriflight by Lloyd Behrendt, commemorates Columbia's last launchColumbia Disaster Creative Works
  • The Columbia Disaster In Perspective
  • A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
  • According to CAIB, destruction of the crew module took place over a period of 24 seconds, beginning at an altitude of approximately 42,672m and ending at 32,000m (Credits: NASA).Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia streaking over the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico (Credits: NASA).Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
  • Columbia debris reconstructionLiving with Columbia: Interview with Mike Cianilli
  • Remembering the Columbia Crew, One Day at a Time
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