The Only People to Die in Space | Last Moments

6:00 the dogs were the real victims here 🙁

I think there’s been a lot of Soviet failures ie more deaths in space than these

Anyone know the outro music that's playing?

RIP
Georgy Dobrovolsky
(1928–1971)
Vladislav Volkov
(1935–1971)
and
Viktor Patsayev
(1933–1971)

the worst part of this is the pressure tests on dogs 🙁

To think they would have lived if only the capsule was big enough for them to wear their pressurized suits. R.I.P. Soyuz 11 Crew.

Thank you for a great video. Actually this tragic accident was caused by a human error – there was a valve in the capsule that was supposed to be opened upon landing to equalize air pressure inside and outside before the hatch would open. What I remember from reading about this accident, somebody in the assembly facility had set up this valve incorrectly and it opened way before the landing. The KGB had even identified the person and determined that it was a mistake, not an act of sabotage. Since than all Soviet/Russian cosmonauts wore space suits upon taking off and landing.

A monument to Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Pitsayev alongside the other 11 astronauts and cosmonauts who had died in space missions was put on the moon by the Apollo 15 crew alongside a ‘Fallen Astronaut’ statue in their memory.

I would love to be a fly on the wall 500 years into the future just to see how people of that era looked back on such marvels of tech for pur age and say "wow look at how dangerous and primitive this was"

"Duration of exposures (6 animals in each group) 3-5, 10, 30, 60, 90, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180 seconds"
Jesus Christ. The things we do to innocent animals we do not deserve for the sake of "science" and experimentation.

I love the picture of a dog expanding and retracting in my head

They could have survived all the way to the ground had they been provided pressure suits, like every crew since