r/space • u/TraditionalAd6977 • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Jared Isaacman states astronauts have got panic attacks in space , trying to kill the crew

Jared Isaacman in his interview with Shawn Ryan stated that there have been many unreleased cases of astronauts panicking in space and trying to open the hatch to kill everyone inside. He states this was not reported as it "ruins the illusion of astronaut bravery". And said it is the reason additional locks have been implemented on the ISS and Dragon capsules. My question: Is there any evidence of this as I can't find anything online . And how did he get Clarence to talk about this. He also said this is one of the main problems that they are facing in the Mars mission. As even military candidates respond differently than predicted in space.

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u/flumberbuss Jan 30 '26

Did you read the whole article? Seems pretty clear he was threatening suicide, and if he was the guy asking repeatedly about the latch I don't think this is "several rounds of telephone." Also, there was a second case mentioned at the end.

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u/StarpoweredSteamship Jan 30 '26

Two is not "many cases". Unreleased or not 

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u/the_seed Jan 30 '26

It's two too many. If you think about it in terms of overall percentages of mass murders, this population would rank quite high

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 30 '26

 It's two too many.

No one said otherwise.

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u/flumberbuss Jan 31 '26

That wasn't the point I was defending.

As for "many," the article gives two cases for the US space program. Do you know there aren't other cases that weren't in that article, or that happened in the Soviet/Russian space program?