Where do they go what happens to them? Okay, I am oviously bored, but extremely curious.
2007-07-25 09:36:33 · 8 answers · asked by Nina M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This has not ever happened - yet.
If it does, then rescue attempts will obviously be made and they will probably succeed unless the person gets going away from the craft with considerable speed. This would make international news and be the first tragedy of its kind.
The person would remain in orbit for a long, long, long time. Their perfectly preserved (but dead) body would orbit the Earth potentially for years. If they have just the right angle, maybe even decades. Eventually their orbit would decay and they would enter the atmosphere as a very brief shooting star and burn up just like a meteor.
The duration of their orbit depends on their velocity, which includes speed and direction. They might only stay in orbit for a few hours, or it could be a century or more.
2007-07-25 09:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by Waynez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that has never happened. They always keep a safety line attached. There were a few flights where they had a jet pack and didn't use the safety line, but nobody has even been lost in space or floated away out of control. They don't use the jet pack any more because it runs out of fuel too fast and anyway they are always working hear the shuttle or space station where they can easily move from hand hold to hand hold.
2007-07-25 09:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually there is so much junk floating around in space, nuts, bolts, wrenches, solar panels, etc.. that you can see them at dusk with a reg. pair of binoculars, they only go outside of the ship if they have to (repair" and when they do go outside, the shuttle is spun in such a way to protect the astronauts from debris hitting them. A fleck of paint can go through you like a bullet, there is no resistance if it is traveling through space.
2007-07-25 09:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have not. Leonov, the first man to go outside a spacecraft almost couldn't get back inside due to the air pressure in his suit. He was running out of air, so he deflated his suit and was able to scramble back inside!
2007-07-25 09:40:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There've been some cases of lost equipment & materials, but never a person.
2007-07-25 09:45:16 · answer #5 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has never happened. I'd rather not contemplate the gruesome details should it ever occur.
2007-07-25 09:39:37 · answer #6 · answered by dansinger61 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in the movies.
2007-07-25 09:42:04 · answer #7 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
almost once (due to an inability to get back in the door) it was a russian
2007-07-25 09:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by dd G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋