{"id":8872,"date":"2013-10-14T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2013-10-13T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T16:11:51","slug":"10-of-the-most-dangerous-space-walks-ever-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8872","title":{"rendered":"10 of the Most Dangerous Space Walks Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z101413dangerous_spacewalks.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\nIn honor of the release of <em><strong>Gravity<\/strong><\/em>, <strong>Popular Mechanics<\/strong> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/space\/nasa\/10-of-the-most-dangerous-space-walks-ever-done#slide-1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10 of the Most Dangerous Space Walks Ever Done<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are just a three of tidbits&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>#10. Hubble Repair:<\/strong> &#8230;Had anything gone wrong, the astronauts would have had no refuge or hope of rescue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>#9. \u00a0Gonna Need a Bigger Door:<\/strong> \u00a0In the early days of the space race, no one knew for sure what was required for space walks beyond a spacesuit. One thing that&#8217;s nice to have: a hatch that&#8217;s big enough to accommodate a suit that expands when no longer being squeezed by outside air pressure. In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov almost paid for that oversight with his life when he couldn&#8217;t get back inside his Voskhod spacecraft after his historic first space walk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>#7: Sasha, I Don&#8217;t Think&#8230;:<\/strong>\u00a0Decompression is a space station astronaut&#8217;s worst nightmare. The nightmare came true in 1997 when an out-of-control Progress cargo ship slammed into space station Mir, punching a hole in the module it struck. With alarms blaring, cosmonauts Michael Foale and Sasha Lazutkin had to use the only tool they had at hand\u2014a kitchen knife&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the release of Gravity, Popular Mechanics posted 10 of the Most Dangerous Space Walks Ever Done. \u00a0Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8875,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions\/8875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}