Timeline for Potential catastrophic death on the ISS from mistakes
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| Dec 29, 2019 at 1:00 | comment | added | SF. | Absence of return vessels is very unlikely. There's always enough to return and preparing a Soyuz for launch takes less than supplies will last, plus Dragon 2 is practically ready and can be prepared for flight in weeks. Flying away from station - SAFER maneuvering system, plus they can always give a chase in a Soyuz. The speeds would hardly exceed 2-3 m/s. Plus you'd need a very bad accident to lose the tether, the loads are really low in 0g. Canadarm moves quite slowly, would be hard to get hit strong enough. | |
| Dec 27, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1210666802696642560 | ||
| Dec 26, 2019 at 16:55 | comment | added | CourageousPotato | @Uwe I meant high voltage in the solar panel assembly itself | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 16:54 | comment | added | Uwe | @CourageousPotato Voltages used on the ISS are not higher than those used in houses equipped with solar panels. Voltages used for outdoor power distribution on Earth for medium and long distances are much higher. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 13:34 | comment | added | user54 | Smashed by moving parts (such as Strela or Canadarm cranes) during EVA? | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 13:28 | comment | added | user54 | Flying away from the station during EVA because of a detached tether? | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 13:19 | comment | added | user54 | No timely supplies from earth accompanied by an absence of functioning return vessels. A lab rat going berserk. A "flight participant" space tourist going berserk and unauthorisedly run some technological devices, such as Soyuz. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 10:42 | comment | added | SF. | Two circumstances I can think of: crashing a spacecraft into the station by botched rendez-vous (like it happened with Mir, dumb luck nothing critical was damaged), and a space-suit failure during EVA (due to an error in handling or inspection failure). Drowing in the coolant water due to a leak in the cooling layer is a serious risk and something that almost happened (the leak wasn't so severe as to obstruct the astronaut's mouth and nose) | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 9:59 | comment | added | uhoh | here's some non-germane human error: 1, 2, 3, 4 I suppose something similar could be done by an astronaut on the ISS as well. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 5:23 | comment | added | Bob516 | True it is not germane but it was helpful to me anyway. It answered a question I didn't even think to ask. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 5:19 | comment | added | Organic Marble | @Paul not germane - no human error | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 4:30 | comment | added | Paul | Astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned during a space walk... | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 3:35 | comment | added | Sergiy Lenzion | This article (in Russian), along with fire and decompression, highlights risk of major malfunction of life support system(s) and presence of toxic atmosphere (both could be induced by a human error). I would also add a possibility of human error in handling dangerous bio- experiments (outbreak of hazardous bio- material of a bio-experiment to the ISS habitat atmosphere), but these scenarios are unlikely to lead to a sudden death though. Saying this, there are terminal scenarios when fire or decompression wouldn't lead to a sudden death | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 2:59 | comment | added | CourageousPotato | There are some particularly high voltages in the power production system (solar panels, batteries) on the ISS. There are likely ways to be electrocuted if a power component is damaged or mishandled. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 2:49 | comment | added | Bob516 | @LeoS Thank you for helping clarify the question. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 2:48 | history | edited | Bob516 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarified my question after reading comment by LeoS
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 2:35 | comment | added | Organic Marble | It appears that an ISS PRA was done adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002ESASP.486..319S but the article doesn't go into a lot of detail. If it can be found, the answer to your question would be in there. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 1:53 | comment | added | Sergiy Lenzion | A heart attack; choking with piece of food; losing too much blood from a cut of a major artery, etc. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 1:31 | comment | added | Organic Marble | You're looking for a PRA (probabilitistic risk assessment) skinnied down to human error causes. I've seen PRAs for shuttle but not ISS. Doesn't mean they don't exist, of course. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 0:07 | history | asked | Bob516 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |