Spaceflight-related accidents and incidents during assembly, testing, and preparation for flight of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft have occasionally resulted in injuries or the loss of craft since the earliest days of space programs. NASA investigators determined they may have survived the spacecraft disintegration, possibly unconscious from hypoxia; some tried to activate their emergency oxygen. Yes it is kind of set in The City, but there is no real character here, nor really any discernable story. This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human fatality or near-fatality during flight or training for crewed space missions, and testing, assembly, preparation or flight of crewed and robotic spacecraft.

Workers repairing the roof of the Baikonur Cosmodrome N-1/ Energia vehicle assembly building died when the roof suffered a total structural collapse and crashed 80 meters (260 ft) to the ground. Space Shuttle Atlantis' Thermal Protection System tiles sustained unusually severe damage during this flight. The crew, commander Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov, suffered a steep ballistic re-entry, but were safely recovered.NASA's official report ( Report of Apollo 13 Review Board) does not use the word "explosion" in describing the tank failure. Thomas Stafford quickly broke out emergency oxygen masks and put one on Brand and gave one to Deke Slayton. Dead Astronauts is the story of those three, as well as other beings they encounter in their eternally looping quest through multiple realities to enter the City and bring the Company down. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

VanderMeer’s writing renders words sometimes as elegant brushstrokes, and other times, like Lego bricks haphazardly kludged together by a hyperactive yet brilliant child. There is a temptation to skip over such passages, yet in their obsessive reiterations they begin gradually to take on the quality of music, a whispered continuo that is both creepy and beguiling, conveying their message with a subtextual intensity that would be difficult to achieve through more conventional means. In the statistics below, the term "astronaut" is used to refer to all space travelers (to avoid the use of "astronaut/cosmonaut"). For Grayson, Moss, and Chen, what will survive of us is love; for the dark bird and Charlie X, enough understanding to obtain release; and for Sarah and the blue fox, a sort of future, a new narrative form, a world not remade but begun again. After retrofire, the Vostok service module unexpectedly remained attached to the reentry module by a bundle of wires.

After inspection by Canadarm2 and the European Robotic Arm, [86] NASA announced on December 19, 2022, "A small hole was observed, and the surface of the radiator around the hole showed discoloration".