Name: Secret Space Escapes
Released: 2015-11-10T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Jack Dimich, Kimberly Spak, Aleksey Solodov

TV Show · Documentary

Secret Space Escapes reveals terrifying accidents, fights for survival, and stories of close calls and near misses by the astronauts who survived them. This all-new series offers chilling accounts of the challenges of space exploration as told only by the explorers who lived them and the men and women in mission control who helped each team avert disaster.

2015 · 43m

Starring Jack Dimich, Kimberly Spak, Aleksey Solodov

EPISODE 1

Fire on The Mir

Astronauts and cosmonauts battle a life-threatening fire and tackle an out-of-control cargo ship on the Russian space station, MIR. Astronaut Chris Hadfield's rookie spacewalk takes a terrifying turn.

43m
EPISODE 2

Shipwrecked

A deadly collision in orbit punctures the hull of Russian space station, MIR. As oxygen seeps into space, the crew's lifeboat begins to die. An astronaut becomes trapped in an airlock with only a depleted oxygen tank to survive.

42m
EPISODE 3

Secret Mayday Mission

During a classified mission, the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis discovers fatal damage to the heat shield tiles on the underbelly of their ship. But no one can know that they're there.

40m
EPISODE 4

Toxic Leak

A toxic ammonia leak endangers an entire crew; a cosmonaut narrowly survives re-entry, only to be stranded in the wilderness; a spacewalker's helmet fills with water, threatening to drown him in space.

42m
EPISODE 5

Point of No Return

A spacewalker loses his eye sight and is locked outside his craft after a spacesuit malfunction; Cosmonauts are engulfed by a fire while still on the launchpad; a shuttle mission is aborted T-4 seconds before launch, but the crew doesn't know why.

43m
EPISODE 6

Gasping for Air

A toxic leak threatens the lives of astronauts upon reentry. An epic mission to the Salyut space station takes an unexpected turn when the crew suffers from depressurization.

43m