History YMMV / BuzzAldrinRaceIntoSpace

* HarsherInHindsight:

*** Having the Oxygen supply contribute or cause a fire inside a space capsule. This happened to both [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Bondarenko the Soviets]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 the Americans]].

*** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1 Parachute failure causing a capsule to hit the Earth like a meteor and kill its occupant(s)]] (for the NSFW [[Nausea Fuel]] that ensues, [[http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/astronaut-vladimir-komarov-man-fell-space-1967/ click here]] [[BodyHorror for images of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov Vladimir Komarov's]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay open casket funeral]])

* HarsherInHindsight: The failures you can experience:
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1 Parachute failure causing a capsule to hit the Earth like a meteor and kill its occupant(s)]] (for the NSFW {{Nausea Fuel}} that ensues, [[http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/astronaut-vladimir-komarov-man-fell-space-1967/ click here]] [[BodyHorror for images of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov Vladimir Komarov's]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay open casket funeral]])
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster A failed heat shield causing a spacecraft to burn up or break up in the upper atmosphere]], which could still happen while returning from a successful Moon Landing.
** Having the Oxygen supply contribute or cause a fire inside a space capsule. This happened to both [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Bondarenko the Soviets]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 the Americans]].
** Losing the atmosphere inside a spacecraft while in space, usually resulting from damage due to failed docking, but can also be a design flaw as in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 Soyuz 11]].
** [[StuffBlowingUp A rocket explodes on the launchpad]]. This happened to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_TV3 Americans' first attempt at an orbital satellite]] and much more spectacularly with all attempts with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket) Soviets' N1 rocket]], which was intended for manned Moon Landings and serves as the Saturn V equivalent in this game.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** Astronauts killed in training prior to their first space flight are often given high stats e.g. Iven Kincheloe, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_See Elliot See]], Charles Basset.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1 Parachute failure causing a capsule to hit the Earth like a meteor and kill its occupant(s)]] (for the NSFW {{Nausea Fuel}} [[RealityEnsues that ensues]], [[http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/astronaut-vladimir-komarov-man-fell-space-1967/ click here]] [[BodyHorror for images of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov Vladimir Komarov's]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay open casket funeral]])

** Astronauts can, and often do die due to hypoxia from being stranded in space; from crashing into the moon; or from lunar passes/orbits {{gone horribly wrong}} in which they fail to manoeuvre back to Earth and thus enter heliocentric orbit. [[CaptainObvious This makes their bodies unrecoverable]], and thus their is nothing to bury. However, deaths on re-entry may still provide bodies to bury as with the aforementioned case of Komarov, or with the crew of Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:
** Astronauts killed in training prior to their first space flight are often given high stats e.g. Iven Kincheloe, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_See Elliot See]], Charles Basset.

* NightmareFuel

** When rocket scientists go forward and say that "the next mission has a 50% chance of exploding on launch".

** Astronauts killed in training prior to their first space flight are often given high stats e.g. Iven Kincheloe, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_See Elliot See]], Charles Basset.