We all have grown up while wanting to visit
the moon someday. But what if we tell you
that fortunately, we live on the safest planet.
As the moon is not so romantic when you visit
it rather the incidents seen by those who
visited moon or through NASA say that moon
is a dangerous endeavor and, major tragedies
aside, there have been several smaller terrifying,
grotesque and absurd episodes to come out
of it. But before continuing further, please
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Now, let us take a look at the top 10 horrifying
space incidents witnessed by our heroes who
stepped there:
10. Ghost hand of God:
This hand when appeared shook the whole team
of NASA. They nicknamed it "Ghost hand of
God," and later after research got to know
that this object is called a pulsar wind nebula.
It's powered by the leftover, dense core of
a star that blew up in a supernova explosion.
So, the stellar corpse rapidly spins around,
seven times per second, firing out a particle
winding into the material around it, which
was ejected in the star's explosion. These
particles are interacting with magnetic fields
around the material, causing it to glow with
X-rays. The result is a cloud that looked
like an open hand.
Later the research told that the hand is a
cloud of material ejected from a star that
exploded. The hand shrinks in the NuSTAR image,
looking more like a fist, as indicated by
the blue color. The northern region, where
the fingers are located, shrinks more than
the southern part, where a jet lies, implying
the two areas are physically different.
9. Space Corpses in the Sky:
Space exploration research has claimed several
animal lives, and while the idea of sacrificing
monkeys and dogs on the altar of science is
rather disheartening, the notion that there
are dead simian and canine space explorers
in orbit just adds to the creepiness.
Several early space missions involved re-entry
procedures, but not every spacecraft was recovered.
This leads many to theorize that perhaps dozens
of mummified animals are still making the
orbital rounds up there. Think about that
the next time you wish upon a shooting star.
8. The crew landed nearly 300 miles off course:
Soyeon Yi, the first Korean in space, was
celebrating a successful and productive visit
to the ISS as she boarded a Russian Soyuz
spacecraft to return home to Earth. But suddenly
everything went wrong.
The crew landed 300 miles off the course.
There were some problems with the detachment
of the Soyuz. The onboard computers sensed
this and switched to a “ballistic reentry,”.
Normally there are two or three recovery helicopters
but that day no one was there. They struggle
hard to get out of the capsule, the crew had
to “crawl” out of the craft on their own.
“Finally,” they were able to get out of
the capsule and “lie on the grass.” It
was then that they realized they didn’t
land on their territory. Coz some shocked
and terrified Kazakhstani nomadic herders
came across.
“They had no idea about the space program,
they had no idea about astronauts and they
had really big huge eyes,” Seyon said. “They
hardly realized we were humans, not an alien,
and they helped us.”
The shepherds helped get one of the crew members
out but they had no cell phone. Eventually,
the crew had to go back into the Soyuz and
use a GPS and satellite phone to make contact
with the Russian Space Agency. Resultantly,
a helicopter arrived on the scene.
Soyeon said that the whole experience was
a lot more terrifying for thousands of Koreans
who were excitedly watching the first person
from their country return from space.
7. Wolf Food from Heaven:
The most unexpected horror story of all was
when the astronaut thought he was about to
be eaten alive by wolves. Yet that's a fate
that cosmonaut Alexei Leonov barely avoided
in 1965. He performed the first spacewalk
on his mission but experienced both air leaks
and material unexpected stiffening.
The latter of which made cramming himself
back in the capsule. He had to lower suit
pressure and risk the bends scrambling back
inside! Finally, Voskhod 2 went off course
during re-entry and landed in the Ural Mountains
where Leonov and his commander were forced
to wait for rescue amid the howls of hungry
wolves. The wolves kept haunting them for
hours until the team came and rescued them.
6. Apollo Toilet Horrors:
Though it seems quite filthy to talk about
this, 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,” Shepard said.
And if that wasn't bad enough, space writer
Andrew Chaikin's description of going No.
2 in orbit is even worse. “He writes about
a special plastic bag that resembles "a top
hat with an adhesive coating on the brim.
Then, the whole spectacle gets even worse
when you have to knead germicide into the
contents. According to Chaikin, one Apollo
7 astronaut shared this bit of advice on the
whole ghastly endeavor "Get naked, allow an
hour, have plenty of tissues handy."
5. Decompression Blues:
Decompression is a nasty business. Exactly
as shown in the movies "Firefly," and "Outland".
All three crew members of Soyuz 11 died when
depressurized during re-entry, but in 1965,
a technician at Johnson Space Center in Houston
lived to tell about the experience. While
inside a vacuum chamber, the tech accidentally
depressurized his spacesuit. His last memory
before losing consciousness.
The sensation of the moisture on his tongue
began to boil, according to Scientific American.
The experts don't all agree on the full symptoms
of rapid decompression, but among the possibilities
is swollen flesh, vaporizing blood, exploding
eyeballs, and ruptured lungs. And that’s
how the Soyuz 11 crew members died.
4. Space Beast:
Microgravity sex is a topic of immense interest
to teenage fanboys and scientists alike.
Both the United States and the former Soviet
Union explored this topic from a space medicine
standpoint, but it took a former "Beastmaster"
actress to take on Newton's laws of motion
and design special garments for the act.
Vanna Bonta's 2suit, according to Wired, is
a pair of twin jumpsuits that open in the
front and fasten to each other with Velcro
strips and zippers. Then you can fasten the
whole two-person sex pod to a stable object.
I’m sure it never sounds creepier than that.
3. Toxic ammonia
Bob Curbeam was no stranger to spacewalking
when he was installing upgrades to the International
Space Station. Still, he wasn’t expecting
a cooling line to break and spew toxic ammonia
all over his suit.
The fact is an astronaut better be damn sure
they are not bringing anything toxic back
into the air with them. First, Curbeam had
to stop the leak. Then he had to figure out
how he was going to get back into the space
shuttle without bringing in the volatile ammonia
contaminating his spacesuit.
Curbeam handled the leak with no problems.
As, he "baked" himself in sunlight for an
extra 30 minutes — arguably one of the most
surreal and terrifying sunbathing methods
a human can experience.
Later, a fellow astronaut brushed off the
suit and equipment. To be doubly sure, they
partially vented the shuttle airlock. Being
careful, the shuttle crew all wore oxygen
masks inside until they were positive nothing
had made its way in.
2. Weird music:
If you think entertainment is not possible
on the moon, you are wrong. Moon welcomes
you with the music itself.
In 1969, three Apollo 10 astronauts were orbiting
the moon, two in a lunar module just miles
above the surface, and one in the command
module higher up when they heard something
unusual. Their conversation, as preserved
in NASA's archives, went like this:
"That music even sounds outer-spacey, doesn't
it? That whistling sound?" said Eugene Cernan,
the lunar module pilot.
So, the inner story is, the music was weird,
well definitely the composers would be different
from earth. And there was a whistling sound
too.
Although, the Apollo 10 astronauts never talked
about what they heard publicly when they came
back to Earth. But the mysterious music was
found in the show called “NASA's Unexplained
Files”.
1. Worst fire ever sustained by an orbiting
spacecraft.
Jerry Linenger was in the middle of an extended
stay on the Mir space station when a catastrophic
fire threatened.
Unfortunately, in place of 3 astronauts, there
were 6 six astronauts on board so the amount
of oxygen produced by the regular tanks was
sometimes not sufficient. The crew needed
to open a supplemental tank.
Things went from jovial to terrible in a split
second, when the tank of concentrated oxygen-based
chemicals caught fire and turned into an unstoppable
blowtorch. This was pretty much a worst-case
scenario for the astronauts and cosmonauts
on Mir.
The fire blazed for 14 minutes as Linenger
and his crew made sure that secondary fires
didn’t catch by dousing things in its path
with fire extinguishers. "The flame ate up
the chemical, melted the canister, melted
insulation around that area,” Linenger said,
“It was a hot, hot, fire burning out of
control.”
As three astronauts were fighting the blaze,
the other three crew members were preparing
for an emergency escape. But the problem was
only 1 ship was able to escape which had the
space of 3 members only.
“That would've been a tough decision,”
Linenger said with striking nonchalance. “Who
goes and who stays?”
Luckily for the crew, that tough decision
never had to be made. “We were able to finally
keep it from spreading, and then we faced
the problem of trying to deal with the smoke
and trying to breathe in a contaminated atmosphere.”
The team assessed the damage and wore oxygen
masks until they were sure the environmental
risks were gone.
After hearing all these incidents I'm glad
I have never thought of leaving my planet.
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