WI: "Space Goes Bad"

I recall as a kid finding old books all over my house owned by my father and uncles from the 1960's and 1970's and 1980's at the latest (those 1980's ones were books from garage sales I bought actually), and there were a few that dealt with the whole bleak astronaut genre. That being the sort of macabre, "Heavy Metal" magazine sort of stories where astronauts would get stranded on a dead planetoid in outer space to languish, or one would go crazy and start killing eachother, or they'd get lost in space to float off into eternal darkness, or get eaten by cosmic radiation, and so forth which I think was prevalent to some degree around the decades of the space race. I think the song "Space Oddity" is actually in this genre too, since an astronaut in said song just floated off forever into the void. "2001: A Space Odyssey" is probably in here too since everyone got killed, basically.

Save for a few explosions and the diaper lady, I don't think NASA ever had any of these problems (maybe owing to a limited manned space program).

So what if any of that did happen? What if an astronaut did go crazy, and do something like kill himself, crash the capsule into the moon, trap everybody outside of the airlock, or something, or just simply have a nervous breakdown. What if astronauts just floated off into eternity due to some technical difficulty or one by his own free will, or crash landed on the moon with no way of recovery. Or any other macabre space scenarios.
 
Astronauts go through more than a few psych tests before being cleared for flight. It's debatable whether these scenarios would be plausible given the duration of early spaceflights.
 
Astronauts go through more than a few psych tests before being cleared for flight.
I'll point to crazy diaper lady as evidence no system is perfect, but an "unhinged" astronauts in a past era may not be wholly unbelievable since I think guidlines were far looser in the early decades of the program. And not all of these scenarios is just somebody snapping.

I also think space may be a breeding ground for breaking down the psyche given too long and the improper environment. You stare at black nothingness for extended periods, and are locked in a confined and limited space (Cabin fever).
 
almost mutiny in OTL NASA

Apollo 7
crew has motion sickness and get severe head cold
in result of strait working schedule and
unhappy with their food selections by NASA.
all three astronauts began "talking back" to the Capcom.
after Mission all crew members being rejected for future missions by NASA

Apollo 13
heavy Tension within crew after explosion of SM
about who or wat caused the expolsion.

Skylab 4
crew has motion sickness in beginn
already in a strait working schedule
Ground crews being to push them harder.
the Crew shot down communication for One day
and take a "Day off" from schedule
after Mission all crew members being rejected for future missions by NASA

and Sovjet ?
there rumor in U.S space literature
that a Salyut 7 mission in 1985 had to cut short because
Cosmonauts Wladimir Wasjutin got a nervous breakdown on bord
and the truth?
his name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin
in fact he was suffering from a urinary tract infection.
Ground crews return him to earth bevor that became a kidney inflammation.
 
Skylab 4 was exacebrated by them all being rookies, too. None of them had any previous spaceflight experience. Has NASA launched any missions like that since?
 
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