Are there any dead astronaut bodies floating around in space?

Only three astronauts have died in space: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev. They were the crew of the Soyuz 11 mission in June of 1971. read more

If an astronaut were to die in space, and their body to be floating around in low Earth orbit (e.g. at the altitude of Hubble or of the ISS or of Tiangong), the small amount of atmospheric drag that exists at that altitude would cause the corpse's orbit to degrade with a timescale of a few years. read more

Since the space race begun the are no astronauts or cosmonauts bodies floating in space. They died either during launch or re-entry. The only one that came close to to die and to remain floating in space was Apollo 13. From Star-trek Scotties ashes( famous command "beam me up Scottie") failed to be sent into space as a final tribute. read more