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Space does not wish you well. It has no shortage of ways to kill you, and in the fifty years humans have been flying spacecraft around the Earth and out to the moon, the mortal perils have been evident. But ten of the missions were the most harrowing of all. Some of them ended in tragedy, some ended...
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S1E10: Apollo 13
Whether there would be time for forensic work before the spacecraft died was unclear—something Liebergot understood better than anyone else. It was ti...
S1E9: Soyuz 11
TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger takes you through the Soyuz 11 mission and the events that make it one of the most harrowing space missions of all time.
S1E8: Mir
It can be oddly peaceful inside a dying spacecraft. That was not something Michael Foale ever suspected—and with good reason. When you’re inside a spa...
S1E7: Luca
Space has a lot of ways to kill you. It’s a beautiful place to contemplate and a thrilling place to visit, but for all its appeal, it’s got murder in...
S1E6: Apollo 12
Pete Conrad had no business trying to fly to the moon on a rainy morning in November of 1969. And NASA, by the look of things, had no business agreein...
S1E5: Gemini 9
If Gemini 9 started off under a curse, the bad fortune seemed determined to stick around.
TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger takes you through the Gemini 9 m...
S1E4: Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom tried not to give much thought to the fact that the rocket he was riding to space was built to kill people. But the terrible V-2 would be...
S1E3: Apollo 1
Whether ship or mere simulator, the Apollo had so far impressed most people at NASA as a slapdash machine. It was temperamental, error-prone, and impo...
S1E2: Gemini 8
Neil Armstrong didn’t believe in omens, but he got a nasty one anyway the moment he climbed into his Gemini 8 spacecraft on the morning of March 16, 1...
S1E1: Apollo 10
There were a lot of mission rules in the official flight plan when Apollo 10 was preparing to leave Earth on its journey to the moon, but the most imp...