Ways to Die in Space

• Suffocated by lack of oxygen
• Burnt to death in 120°C sunlight
• Frozen to death in -100°C shadow
• Turned into a blowfish by vacuum
• Sizzled by cosmic rays and solar radiation
• Pierced by a micrometeoroid
• Killed by falling into a planet or sun

More options if you survive the fall to a planet...

On Mars:

1. Poisoned by atmosphere
2. Zapped by radiation
3. Frozen by sub-zero temperature
   

On Venus:

1. Crushed by atmospheric pressure
2. Melted by 480°C surface temperature
3. Dissolved by atmospheric sulphuric acid
4. Sliced up by volcanic rock and buried in lava
   

On Mercury:

1. Burnt or frozen, depending on where you land
2. Suffocated by lack of atmosphere
   

On any of the gas giants:

1. Simultaneously crushed, burned, poisoned and shredded by extreme atmosphere

How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?

About 1½ minutes. This is more or less what will happen...

1 second: Begin freezing (if in shadow) or burning (if in sunlight)
2 seconds: Begin swelling (you don’t explode though)
5 seconds: Moisture on skin, eyes and tongue boils due to zero air pressure
10 seconds: Internal organs begin rupturing
15 seconds: Lose consciousness, eardrums burst
30 seconds: Blood begins to boil
45 seconds: Heart can no longer pump blood
60-90 seconds: You die