Posted on 08/02/2023 12:06:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
“Bacteria and other organisms from the body could contaminate the Martian surface.”
LOL
Instead, the crew would likely preserve the body in a specialized body bag until it could be returned to Earth.
"Pack in, pack out."
Just let it desiccate, then put it in a shoebox...........
Protocols expose hilarious normalcy bias.
Under the extreme stress of space travel the rules will be the first casualty—astronauts and early settlers will do what they decide to do—and the bureaucrats back on Earth will be ignored.
One obvious result is that they get to vote in every location they orbit until the orbit decays and they burn up...
Kinda like eternal life as a Democrat’s voter..............
Vladimir Komarov feels left out: Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'.
(His was the most tragically preventable death of all. So, so many cowards in that system. It was even worse than the Challenger-era NASA.)
The count is 21.
Are we sure we know all the Russian deaths?
The Rolling Stones is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.
In this excerpt he sort of answers the question.
“Pipe down!” Without waiting for them to comply he stood up and grasped each of them by the scruff of his jacket. Luna's one-sixth gravity permitted him to straight-arm them both; he held them high up off the floor and wide apart. They struggled helplessly, unable to reach anything.The Midshipmen also reveals what to look forward to if you are an unruly hand in deep space.“Listen to me,” he ordered. “Up to now I hadn't quite decided whether to let you two wild men go along or not. But now my mind's made up.” There was a short silence from the two, then Pollux said mournfully, “You mean we don't go?”
“I mean you do go. You need a taste of strict ship's discipline a durn sight more than you need to go to school; these modern schools aren't tough enough for the likes of you. I mean to run a taut ship – prompt, cheerful obedience, on the bounce! Or I throw the book at you. Understand me? Castor?”
“Uh, yes, sir.” “Pollux?”
“Ayeaye,sir!”
“See that you remember it. Pull a fast-talk like that on me when we're in space and I'll stuff you down each other's throat.” He cracked their heads together smartly and threw them away.
The next day, on the way back from the field with the old gaskets, the twins stopped for a few minutes at the city library. They spent the four days they had to wait boning up on space law. They found it rather sobering reading, particularly the part which asserted that a commanding officer in space, acting independently, may and must maintain his authority against any who might attempt to usurp or dispute it. Some of the cited cases were quite grisly. They read of a freighter captain who, in his capacity as chief magistrate, had caused a mutineer to be shoved out an airlock, there to rupture his lungs in the vacuum of space, drown in his own blood.
Pollux made a face. “Grandpa,” he inquired, “how would you like to be spaced?” “No future in it. Thin stuff, vacuum. Low vitamin content”
“Maybe we had better be careful not to irritate Dad. This “captain” pose has gone to his head.”
“It's no pose. Once we raise ship it's legal as church on Sunday. But Dad won't space us, no matter what we do.”
“Don't count on it. Dad is a very tough hombre when he forgets that he's a loving father” “Junior, you worry too much.”
“So? When you feel the pressure drop remember what I said.”
Death at sea death in space. Can’t see much difference.
Jettison the body to the sun.
Just place the bodies on the outside of the spacecraft like the Klingons do in Star Trek STD....
Or send them on a trajectory where they burn up in earth’s atmosphere or to the sun.
I saw this happen to a woman astronaut. They crash landed in water on what they thought was a planet far away, but it turned out to be EARTH....in the future....and it was controlled by liberal progressives called APES!
Very interesting story.
They murdered Gagarin..................
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