Soyuz 11 facts
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The Soyuz 11 depressurised 168km above the earch killing the 3 man crew. It was not found that they were dead until the re-entry vehicle was opened, the ground crew even attempted CPR on the crew members even though they had been dead for hours.
To date, the 3 astronauts of the Soyuz 11 are the only people to have died in space.
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The crew of Soyuz 11 died in space from asphyxiation, when a valve in their re-entry module stuck open. The capsule landed safely, but the crew were dead.
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All humans who have ever lived have died on Earth-- except for 3 people. The crew of Soyuz 11 (Soviet space program) died when their capsule accidentally released all the air from the inside of their capsule into space. The capsule then reentered Earth and safely descended to the surface.
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The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans known to have died in space.
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There is a series of stamps from Equatorial Guinea depicting the Soyuz 11 catastrophe, including an artist's impression of the three dead cosmonauts as they were discovered.
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The only people ever to die in space were the three cosmonauts on the Soyuz 11 mission. After successfully occupying history’s first space station (Salyut 1) for 23 days, they all died of decompression when a breathing tube ruptured in their spaceship on the way home.
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The only recorded people to die outside the bonds of earth were the 3 astronauts on Soyuz 11, who died because of depressurization in there capsule on reentry.
