Secret Space Escapes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.