After retrofire, the Vostok service module unexpectedly remained attached to the reentry module by a bundle of wires. The two halves of the craft were supposed to separate ten seconds after retrofire. But they did not separate until 10 minutes after retrofire, when the wire bundle finally burned through. The spacecraft went into wild gyrations at the beginning of reentry, before the wires burned through and the reentry module settled into the proper reentry attitude. [35] A glimmer, a glint, at the City’s dusty edge, where the line between sky and land cut the eye. An everlasting gleam that yet evaporated upon the arrival of the three and left behind a smell like chrome and chemicals. Out of a morass and expanse of nothing, for what could live beyond the City? What could thrive there? At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars". Reuters. 2023-11-10 . Retrieved 2023-11-11. See and Bassett attempted to land their T-38 at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, in bad weather, and crashed into the adjacent McDonnell Aircraft factory, where they were going for simulator training for their Gemini 9 flight. [25] [26] Some clarity of story does emerge in the second half of the book, where a woman named Sarah, living somewhere in the broken world's past, discovers Charlie X's journal. It has been thrown to her — or someone like her — down the timestream by Chen, in his escape from the Company. Through the journal and Sarah's less-fractured narration — she does, after all, come from a less-fractured place in the timestream — some of how Charlie X happened, and how the dead astronauts became the dead astronauts, emerges from the mosaic of the book like a fossil being carved out of the earth.

Harwood, William (23 May 2005). "Astronaut fatalities". spaceflightnow.com . Retrieved 19 March 2013. The Space Shuttle Columbia was lost as it returned from a two-week mission ( STS-107) when previously detected damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS) resulted in the spacecraft breaking apart during reentry at an altitude of just under 65km and a speed of about Mach 19. Investigation revealed that a piece of foam insulation had fallen off the external tank and hit the shuttle during launch, damaging the reinforced carbon-carbon leading edge of the left wing and allowing the extreme heat of reentry to cause structural failure. [20] Alex Garland Sets Natalie Portman and Frances McDormand for 'Annihilation'; Neill Blomkamp Lines Up Next Project". thefilmstage.com. November 11, 2015. Archived from the original on September 2, 2017 . Retrieved September 1, 2017. But clarity is not the point of Dead Astronauts. Ecology is, and fragmentation; connection across species, times, mentalities. 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. Dead Astronauts started as an internet multimedia project in late 2011 by Jared Kyle from Seattle, USA. Hayley Stewart from Toronto, Canada, joined the project in 2012 as music producer, vocalist and lyricist.Lonnie LeBlanc died from head trauma after a gust of wind blew him off the trailer while he was holding down its contents with his body. [152] [153] The capsule had a malfunction during its return to Earth from the ISS Expedition 6 mission and performed a ballistic reentry. The crew was subjected to about 8 to 9 Gs during reentry. The capsule landed 500km (310mi) from the intended landing target. In addition, after landing the capsule was dragged about 15 metres (49ft) by its parachute and ended up on its side in a hard landing. Astronaut Don Pettit injured his shoulder and was placed on a stretcher in a rescue helicopter and did not take part in post-landing ceremonies. [69] [70] [71] Images and leitmotifs recur, a dizzying interplay of references – the burning shed, the tunnel, the bridge – that remain mysterious and yet act as an anchor, a cumulative weight of symbolism that gradually awakens the reader to a blasted form of thematic coherence. We are offered glimpses of scenes and characters familiar from VanderMeer’s previous novel, Borne, to which Dead Astronauts is loosely linked. The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek (1999, collected in all editions of City of Saints and Madmen) SpaceX worker killed at company's McGregor facility". SpaceFlight Insider. 2014-06-30 . Retrieved 2023-11-11.

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 (260ft) to the ground. Buran Shuttle was destroyed. [137]Two technicians, Luc Celle and Jean-Claude Dhainaut, died from anoxia due to major nitrogen leak in confined area of umbilical mast at Ariane 5 launch area during cryogenic M1 main stage testing. [133] [134]

Summary Bibliography: Jeff VanderMeer". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Archived from the original on February 1, 2018 . Retrieved September 6, 2019.Fuel cell #2 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia unexpectedly failed on Day 4 in orbit, forcing an early end to the flight. The mission touched down safely, and the crew was reflown with the same mission plan on STS-94. Soviets admit cosmonaut's death". Wilmington Morning Star. Wilmington, North Carolina. Associated Press. 6 April 1986. p.6. July 1969: From left to right, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr, the crew of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission are subjected t

The crew came home safely after a violent rupture of a liquid oxygen tank [50] 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. [51] During launch, the Saturn V second stage experienced a potentially serious malfunction when the center of its five engines shut down two minutes early. The remaining engines on the second and third stages were burned a total of 34 seconds longer to compensate, and parking orbit and translunar injection were successfully achieved. It was later determined that the shutdown was caused by pogo oscillation of the engine. [47] [48] [49]a b "SFWA Nebula Award Winners Announced (2014)". June 6, 2015. Archived from the original on September 24, 2018 . Retrieved June 8, 2015. What it is, is affective. There’s a reason half of the book relies on poetic structure rather than narrative, and that’s emotion and animality. A line in the first third reads, “For that was what bodies wanted: To come to rest. To know no more.” And another, later on: “The body did not exist separate from the soul because the soul didn’t exist. But the future never left the past behind either.” To whip out my academic hat for a moment—this is the project of much affect studies work and, connected to that, animal studies too: to unite ontology (regarding being) and epistemology (regarding knowing), reconnecting or dissolving false binaries of the thinking mind and the feeling body that place the human- being outside the web of the world and our own bodies.