Astronaut Fell From Space

Astronaut Fell From Space. In the film gravity, which opens this month, two astronauts are on a spacewalk when an accident hurtles them into the void. There's no doubt space is an extremely dangerous place, but only a handful of space travelers have actually died there.

The soviet union mourned the loss of a hero when it heard the soyuz 1 mission was a failure. Vladimir komarov was a soviet cosmonaut (the soviet version of an astronaut) who became the first person to die on a space mission in 1967.