Which US astronaut became so depressed in space that he attempted to open a hatch and had to be restrained?
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Mr. Blaha was indeed depressed during his space station mission, but I find no reference to him trying to open the hatch.  On some longer shuttle missions, the commander has padlocked the hatch, so that someone suffering a breakdown or extreme disorientation wouldn't open it by mistake.  \n\nNow, there was a *movie* called "Marooned" in which one of the astronauts in an Apollo type capsule, mistakenly tries to blow the hatch, in fact I think he does. I suspect this was a cryptic slam at Gus Grissom, whose hatch "just blew" as his Mercury capsule bobbed in the water after splashdown.
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Check out this site.  It has all the details for you:\n\nhttp://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/wannabe.html
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Deffinitely, we need something from the space program to be PROUD of again.  Since we lost Russian competition, we've squandered our time in space.  I say it's time to do these things, not because they're easy, but because they're hard!
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Astronauts - Glenn, Schirra, and Carpenter. The other dead are, Grissom, Cooper, Slayton and Shephard.
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I think of astronauts.
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Hunter S. Thompson. The entire quote is: 'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"' \n\nHope I helped!!
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Astronauts will not "explode" if their space suit depressurized. If you've ever seen how things act in a "vacuum" bell jar, it explains what would happen: liquids boil at lower temperatures at lower pressures, thus the liquids in the astronaut's body would vaporize and thus the astronaut would be killed (no blood=no oxygen to the brain, for example). Their body would remain intact because skin and other body parts are essentially solids.
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by going to space in  a rocket.
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Occupation Diver\nCause of death the bends from comming up 100 feet in too short of time
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Yuri Gagarin in Vostok I.  Amusing point: To prevent Gagarin from assuming manual control, the control stick was locked.  This was pretty typical of the early Soviet missions, the humans on board were more payload than pilots.  It was even worse for the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, she wasn't even given controls.
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an astro nut?hahaha\n\n\nhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/jobsinfo/astronaut.html\n - the  NASA website
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger\n\njoseph kittinger\n\nhere's a video too:\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-369888258105653405&q=%22First+man+In+Space+-+Skydiving+from+the+edge+of+the+world%22+playable%3Atrue
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denny\n\nit was very sad!!
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no one lost in space- so far as we know. Russians and chinese are not known for their free press...\n\nrescue in space? depends how the guy would fall and how much extra fuel did the rescue crew have. It might be more economical to leave him be and instead of turning back- pick him up on the next orbit. But it really is a case of vectors and velocities also available space (eg close to the atmosphere) and how much air (etc) the guy has.
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Toyohiro Akiyama from Japan\n\nHere's a reference for you to check.\n\n"He was selected as a candidate to become an astronaut for a special TBS mission onboard the Mir Space Station in 1989. After undergoing training for spaceflight, he was selected as finalist and accomplished the mission from December 2 through 10, 1990, becoming the first Japanese astronaut and the first journalist astronaut in the world."\nhttp://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_pleasure_of_spaceflight.shtml
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cosmonauts are russian, astronauts are americans
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Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space, and Alexei Leonov was the first to walk in space (EVA).\n\nThe first American in space was Alan Shepard, and the first American EVA was Ed White.