One hundred sixty-seven kilometers from the ground! Such an anti-record was set by people who died outside our planet. Three cosmonauts on Union-eleven: Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsaev, Grigory Dobrovolsky died due to depressurization during an accident when returning to earth.
Vladislav Volkov.
Victor Patsaev.
Grigory Dobrovolsky.
However, the record for the farthest death from Earth does not belong to humans. As far as is known, our cosmonauts were the only people who died in space. Any other fatal catastrophe occurred at an altitude of no more than 70 km. In addition to humans, many experimental animals died in space. But in reality it is virtually impossible to raise all these statistics. This is not necessary, because we have earthlings who have managed to "throw their hooves" much further. Microbes. Although we do our best to sterilize, bacteria still invade spacecraft before and during launch. Sterilization is very important because we don't need to contaminate other planets with terrestrial bacteria, for two simple reasons - we don't want to accidentally bring in terrestrial lifeforms that would disrupt or destroy the local ecosystem. And if suddenly we ever find traces of alien life, then we would like to be sure that it was not we who brought it here. NASA even has a special employee dealing with this task and he has the coolest position in the world - PLANETARY DEFENSE OFFICER. It is he who is responsible for preventing pollution of the spacecraft. But spacecraft such as voyagers and pioneers that went into deep space were not sterilized. The official approach of planetary defense was simply to try not to crash into other planets, so a lot of bacteria spores are undoubtedly flying on the voyager and they feel quite normal.engaged in this task and he has the coolest position in the world - PLANETARY DEFENSE OFFICER. It is he who is responsible for preventing pollution of the spacecraft. But spacecraft such as voyagers and pioneers that went into deep space were not sterilized. The official approach of planetary defense was simply to try not to crash into other planets, so a lot of bacteria spores are undoubtedly flying on the voyager and they feel quite normal.engaged in this task and he has the coolest position in the world - PLANETARY DEFENSE OFFICER. It is he who is responsible for preventing pollution of the spacecraft. But spacecraft such as voyagers and pioneers that went into deep space were not sterilized. The official approach of planetary defense was simply to try not to crash into other planets, so a lot of bacteria spores are undoubtedly flying on the voyager and they feel quite normal.e undoubtedly a lot of bacterial spores are flying and they feel quite normal.e undoubtedly a lot of bacterial spores are flying and they feel quite normal.
Relatively recently, Japanese scientists shoved a couple of microorganisms into a centrifuge and proved a very interesting fact - some types of bacteria survive quietly under hypergravity conditions. This is when the force of gravity is more than 400 times that of the earth. Another study says that most of the bacteria that spent 6 years in space survived, but provided that they were in the shadows, in the darkest corners of the spacecraft, where they were lacking the ultraviolet radiation of the sun.
In the reports of flights to the moon, a strange number appears (1.98 x 10 ^ 11) - this is the approximate number of viable microorganisms on one spacecraft. Let's imagine that the voyager initially had the same number on board. Let's say in 1000 there is at least one space-resistant, and also at least 1 out of 10 immune spores is in the shadow, it turns out that about 10 million living microorganisms traveling on voyager'e are able to survive. The voyager-1 robotic probe has been surfing the universe since 1977. Just imagine 39 years of uninterrupted flight. At the moment, the device has crossed the mark of 20 billion km from the ground. And yes, voyager-1 is actually not alone. If we consider that microbes die at a rate of 30% in 6 years, then according to rough estimates, there are now slightly more than 1,000,000 living beings on it. It's like a whole country flying towards the unknown. And at least one of its inhabitants sets a new record for the farthest death from earth every day.
Spacecraft voyager-1.
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