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How Close has an Astronaut Come to Floating Off Into Space?One of the more dramatic yet unsatisfying deaths in space movies is the one in which an astronaut is performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) or space walk and becomes untethered from the ship. They drift away, knowing there's no possibility of rescue. The audience has to imagine what the rest of that astronaut's life would be like, and it's horrifying. It's never happened in real life, but the possibility is there. About 200 astronauts have performed EVAs, and a couple of times there have been close calls. In 1973, two Americans had a close call while working on the Skylab space station. And two cosmonauts doing an EVA outside the Salyut 6 space station in 1977 came close to disaster. Read these stories of a nightmare almost coming true at Real Clear Science.#astronaut #cosmonaut #EVA #closecall

This is How Russian Cosmonauts Opened the Hatch That Connects the Lab Module to the International Space StationLast week, Russian space agency Roscosmos' lab module docked with the International Space Station with a bit of drama: due to a software glitch, the module fired its thrusters which caused the space station to spin and tilt.After the situation was stabilized, the cosmonauts inside the Russian module, nicknamed 'Nauka' (Russian for 'science') were able to open the hatch that connect it to the space station and moved inside.The two cosmonauts, Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, took a video clip of their opening of the hatch. It's an interesting sight to see: Novitsky used a special key then he and Dubrov pushed the hatch directly outwards then swung it away before the cosmonaut went through it.At the end of the clip, there's a brief tour of the Nauka lab module.#InternationalSpaceStation #ISS #spacestation #NaukaModule #cosmonaut #Roscosmos #hatch