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Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith: A City On Mars (EBook, 2023, Penguin Press)

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate …

If you're exposed to space, most likely you'll just have the death. In fact, the only people who've ever died in space were killed by sudden loss of pressure. It was June 30, 1971, and cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovosky, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov were returning from Salyut-1. […] The three cosmonauts entered the capsule, and after some brief issues getting the hatch to seal, undocked and began their descent. When the ground crew arrived and the capsules was opened, the men were found, still seated, serene in death. Attempts to revive them proved useless- each had suffered massive brain hemorrhaging. Subsequent investigation determined that when they undocked from their space station, a valve on the return craft had unexpectedly popped open, exposing them to a near-perfect vacuum.

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I can't recall ever having learned about this!! I hope for their sake that this is a quick and painless death.

This is in a chapter on how we pretty much don't know shit about how to live in space from a medical perspective.