Why Won't Anyone Save an Astronaut Who Floated Away Into Space?

[frozentspark]

I'm deathly afraid of heights, there is absolutely no way I could be up there just hanging out above the world. Much respect for all of them

[CrippledMerc]

Honestly if I was floating away into space with no way to get back to the station, I’d probably talk to Mission Control to try to get in touch with my family to see if I could talk to them one last time, then I’d ask mission control to help me figure out the easiest and most painless way to die without having to wait until my air ran out. Although, by running out of air you’d eventually pass out from the carbon dioxide and lack of oxygen for an ultimately painless death, but again that’d take many hours. Likely excruciatingly long, and anxiety inducing hours. And I don’t know that I could handle sitting there with my own thoughts for that long knowing what’s going to eventually happen.

That’s terrifying and tough to wrap my mind around. I hope none of our incredibly brave astronauts ever have to experience that.

[dianabenson]

This and being stuck in a broken submarine at the bottom of the ocean are two of the scariest situations imaginable.
If I were to get lost in space just floating aimlessly and no one could help me, I think I would just take off my helmet to end it alot quicker.

[Brokenansmokey.]

I think id just calm down, relax and take in as much as i could. Id also make my peace and pray. Who else gets to die with such serene silent beauty.

[Billnyehentaiguy]

He’s done it, he’s branched away from animals and into other sciences. He’s evolving.

[djbeezy]

My cousin is a retired astronaut. Hey flew 5 times. His 5th flight he went to MIR. He suffered from severe depression for quite some time. He eventually pushed past it but he retired when he got back.

[RiversCuomo]

I feel like Astronauts aren't credited enough for their job's, they are severely underrated.

[Steve-upjq]

Absolute respect to these men working outside of the planet just so we can have Internet connection and digital maps.

[spicyykels]

As someone with severe anxiety just the Idea of space makes my chest feel tight, massive respect for what these people do. I would panic just being isolated like that, let alone having to go out and do space walks with the idea of possible imminent death lingering on my mind lmao

[addinkus]

I liked this video, although I admit the click bait title move got me to watch it.. no one’s actually floating in space dead and not been retrieved- glad to hear that! Please Don’t bait us too much I’m a loyal subscriber .. keep up the good work and thank you for your content!

[DaSnipaQueen]

i honestly cry when movies show them float away or get abandoned it scares me so much to even imagine that happening, nobody should experience such a death. i already spend too much time thinking but in deep darkness ?? floating??? alone?? yeah thats a legit nightmare.

[SeanVito]

I think the worst part about being in space is just all of the nothingness. Being in space you'd deal with several fears: megalophobia, kenophobia, and acrophobia. The fear of massive objects, the fear of the void, and the fear of heights. Falling into the void is probably the scariest thing for me.

[ephraimgarrett]

When Bruce McCandless was testing the MMU, he was untethered and got pretty far from the Shuttle. You could hear the concern in the NASA ground controller's voice when they talked him into coming back. I think they were concerned that he was going "Major Tom" on them. 😃

[channelkarl]

From an engineering standpoint: Would it be possible to install an emergency valve allowing the astronaut to vent their own air supply into the maneuverability module in a worst case scenario? IIRC the current gen of those space jetpacks have about 70-90sec of thrust before they're spent which is really not a lot of control, even accounting for not needing constant thrust in microgravity.

[TrainerAQ]

Well to be fair, running out of oxygen is the most painless way to go. Hypoxia feels like going drunk, having a good time and then falling asleep feeling a little tingly (assuming you can get rid of the carbon dioxide acidifying our blood and making it extremely uncomfortable). When we consider the other options being death by starvation, dehydration, radiation, or being exposed to the vacuum of space, running out of air definitely the way I'd choose to go.

[memo]

The jetpack part had me dying " come on, come on, aw wtf " 😂😂😂😂

[brandonaldaymachuse]

Space is probably my worst nightmare i can imagine. Just blackness, gigantic views, no up or down...I love sci fi and video games but i personally would never want to spacewalk. I get severe vertigo.

[olgierdogden]

I can hear the narrator quite clearly without him shouting the dialogue out at the audience. And regarding the life of an Astronaut you literally submit your heart and soul to the job. Up in the ISS you can’t phone in to take the day off. Total dedication to the job and of course the country or countries you represent.

[namikstudios]

My head starts spinning and I feel dizzy just thinking about being lost in space and drifting away into nothing. And if you were near the Earth, being able to see it would be both beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. So close but yet so far. Kind of reminds me a bit of the stories of people who fall off cruise ships out in the open ocean and end up drowning after treading water for hours. Watching the ship slowly getting further away would be like watching the Earth, only far less spectacular. Trying to remain calm in either situation would be next to impossible.

[alexbryda]

2:44 why that look like George from Seinfeld 😂