Rocket Fail, the movie "First Man" reminds of the risks involved in traveling in space

However, surveys have shown that Americans are optimistic about space exploration and travel. A poll conducted in 2010 by Smithsonian magazine and a Washington-based think tank revealed that 53% of Americans thought ordinary citizens would be able to travel in the space by 2050.

"There is always a risk that something can happen," said Morgan Kollin, of Troy, who grew up seeking to rank among the stars and still hopes to eventually be able to do so. "But, if you study the possibilities, you must think that there will soon be more than traditional astronauts."

Nick Hague, NASA's astronaut, and Alexei Ovchinin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, returned to Earth on Thursday.

NASA has announced plans to investigate the problems.

The Hague and Ovchinin were able to break out of the space capsule and land in the east of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, news organizations reported. They were taken to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow.

The Soyuz MS-10 space capsule (Photo: Associated Press)

The rocket malfunction highlighted the serious risks of space travel while billionaire-run companies – Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, Eon Musk's SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin – competed against each other. attract paying customers in heaven.

Thursday's failed mission also resurrected the memory of other space issues and raised concerns among policymakers about how to ensure the security of future space travel.

Among the beneficiaries of a space travel industry is U-M, which has trained more than 6,000 aerospace engineers since the beginning of its program more than a century ago. The university boasts of having the oldest aerospace program in the country.

In addition, more than half a dozen UM graduates have become NASA astronauts, including members of the Apollo 15 crew – David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden – and Ed White, the first American to walk in space, but who died as a result of a fire. during Apollo preparations 1.

Other space tragedies include the malfunctioning of the O-rings when the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched in 1986. All astronauts aboard, including civilian professor Christa McAuliffe, died. In 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was disintegrated when returning to the Earth 's atmosphere.

Even in the film "First Man", which deals with the first successful mission on the moon, a film critic who cast a glance at the film said that he "made trips into space at once the coolest and most terrifying ever, "with flight scenes at hypersonic speeds with G-force blackout.

Yet for space travel enthusiasts such as Kollin – who love sci-fi shows such as "Star Trek" and space novels by Andy Weir – the feeling of danger is part of the adventure.

Kollin, 38, said that going into space would be a unique opportunity and that almost nothing could dissuade him.

"I have never been able to pursue science to become a real astronaut," he said. "If I could have gone to the space camp or something like that, I might have had the guts to do it.But, as this is not an opportunity that I have. I have everything I can do, it's dreaming. "