Has Anyone Ever Been Lost In Space

Favorite answer no this has never happened.

Has anyone ever been lost in space. No film in recent memory has sparked as much terror and fascination with the idea as gravity starring sandra bullock as an astronaut who becomes untethered from her space station possibly lost. Which begs the question has anyone ever died in space. Well if you ve ever pondered over that query then the truth is yes people have lost their lives trying to fill in the gaps about what lies in the heavens. The lost cosmonauts or phantom cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory alleging that soviet cosmonauts went to outer space before yuri gagarin but their existence has never been publicly acknowledged by either the soviet or russian space authorities.

Apollo 1 astronauts gus grissom edward white ii. In february 2003 the columbia orbiter incinerated 15 minutes before it was due to land with the loss of seven crew. Georgi dobrovolski vladislav volkov and viktor patsayev are the only people who have died in space. Cosmonauts georgi dobrovolski left vladislav volkov middle and viktor patsayev right the only three people to die in space are featured on three ussr stamps.

Others have been incinerated on the apollo launchpad. Astronauts have also died while training for space missions such as the apollo 1 launch pad fire which killed an entire crew of three. Since the dawn of space travel a sum total of 18 astronauts cosmonauts have died during the space flight missions. Many others have lost their lives on the ground launching to space or training for space missions but only 3 people have ever actually died in space.

Space seems to be a safer. Though the apollo missions never lost an astronaut during a spaceflight two fatal accidents did occur during related activities. There have also been some non astronaut fatalities during spaceflight related activities. Some people have been killed during space missions but none of those deaths involved a person getting lost in space also it is extremely unlikely.