Near misses in space – Beyond Apollo 13
The 1995 movie Apollo 13, brought to life what has long been regarded as NASA’s most successful failure. The 1970 mission to the moon was the closest NASA came in the public eye to losing a crew in space prior to the Challenger accident of 1986. Spaceflight has and remains a risky undertaking. In spite of the successes of Space X and with a return to the moon imminent, we must never lose sight that spaceflight remains a risky business for which there are no guarantees of success. In this program we go beyond Apollo 13 and the loss of the space shuttles to look at some little known examples from the early space program of near misses both on the ground and in space. From before the flight of Yuri Gagarin, to the era of the space shuttle, the American and Russian programs have many never told takes of death defying risk as we have pushed the barriers to explore space. .. this program tells the story of some of those risky missions.
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