Secret Space Escapes

2015 • Science Channel
4.4
34 reviews
TV-PG
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Fire on the Mir
11/9/15
Season-only
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.
2 Shipwrecked
11/17/15
Season-only
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.
3 Secret Mayday Mission
11/24/15
Season-only
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.
4 Toxic Leak
12/1/15
Season-only
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.
5 Point of No Return
12/8/15
Season-only
A spacewalker loses his vision and is locked outside his craft after a spacesuit malfunction.Cosmonauts are engulfed by a fire while still on the launchpad. T-4 seconds before launch a shuttle mission is aborted, but the crew doesn't know why.
6 Gasping for Air
12/15/15
Season-only
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.
7 Stranded
12/22/15
Season-only
A power failure occurs on the ISS forcing the crew to consider abandoning the station, although damage has been found on the shuttle that could comprise them upon reentry. During the first spacewalk a cosmonaut is nearly stranded after a suit malfunction.
8 Fatal Re-entry
12/8/15
Season-only
An astronaut performs an emergency procedure on an electrified panel to save a new ISS solar array. The pressures of the Space Race push Soviets to launch Soyuz 1 despite warnings. The first Korean astronaut gets the ride of her life during reentry.

About this show

What's it like to leave earth to explore the unknown? How does it feel to be in space? What happens when you're in space and something goes terribly wrong? SECRET SPACE ESCAPES reveals terrifying accidents, fights for survival, and stories of close calls and near misses by the astronauts who survived them.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
34 reviews
Elmer Magner
November 29, 2015
I love to go up with then.I Will have A Good Time Up there wI'll No Man have been. Before. You're, Elmer
David Galaska
October 28, 2019
You know? And the audience repeated.!! So say we all.! Now you probably wonder what I am talking about. The answer to the wonder of it all. What can be? is us , is you , is them, is me, it is everyone that is what it is. You'll see , and you will be amazed, so say we all.
Willis Hough
November 20, 2015
Happy