Lothar Siebert

In such a way, it would be of if waiting that accidents happened from time to time in the area of the space flights. Already at the time of the first rockets, the flying bombs V-2 in World War II, the Germans had created the Bachem-Natter airplane, that would take off in the vertical line, as a rocket. It would be the first vertical take-off of a human being, something that if would become common with the advent of the space rockets. E, already in this pioneering occasion, the adventure finished in tragedy when the airplane if undid in air provoking the death of its pilot, lieutenant Lothar Siebert (CLARKE, 1968). With the sprouting of the rockets properly said, some accidents had continued to happen.

At the beginning, over all due to little experience and rusticidade of such vehicles the accidents were something common. In 1956, previous year to the launching of the Sputnik-1 satellite, first object artificial to gravitate the Land, the number of failures in American launchings arrived frightful 48%. The number of Soviet failures can have reached similar platforms, even so does not have certainty, a time that in the first years of the Space Race its failures were kept in absolute secrecy (CLARKE, 1968; WHITE, 2003). Some accidents with rockets do not finish in tragedy, not causing victims, but still thus, exerting some pressure throughout History so that changes are introduced in the space programs. But in if treating to accidents with fatal victims the pressures they are still bigger. Some accidents can be seen as the responsible right-handers for great changes, some of which had finished for molding the routes and the future of the space activities in some nations.