What Will Happen If You Die In Space

When you are exposed to this the air in your lungs has no choice but to be forced out through your mouth.

What will happen if you die in space. In space there s nothing to insulate you so eventually you ll freeze to death. In today s animated funny cartoon we re exploring just that and seeing what would happen to your body. Not too long after your breathing motions will seem fairly normal despite their being no air to breathe until you die of oxygen deprivation. Would your head really explode.

Hank answers a scishow viewer s most pressing question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space. The situation in space is a little different than here on earth due to the lack of outside pressure and if you held your breath in space without a suit you d be in a big trouble. Remember that space is a vacuum meaning that there are no particles floating around. What if you all of a sudden found yourself floating in space without a spacesuit.

If you do die in space your body will not decompose in the normal way since there is no oxygen. Imagine tumbling away from your station knowing that you will not be able to get back that no one can save you and that you will ultimately float way to your death on your own maybe staring at. Astronaut scott kelly. The rare event happens once every one or two years.

What happens to your body when you die in space. Astronauts already spend extended periods of time on the international space station the record is almost 438 days set by a russian cosmonaut in the mid 90s and u s. But fortunately that loss of 100 watts of heat isn t all that much compared to the sheer mass of your body.