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* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': In ''Episode Two'', upon meeting with Kleiner and Magnusson in the White Forest rocket silo, Kleiner's pet headcrab Lamarr can be seen scrambling into the satellite rocket through an open hatch and falling asleep inside. Later on during the launch, Kleiner notes a small weight anomaly caused by Lamarr still resting inside of the rocket, but this is ignored and the launch goes forward as planned. [[UncertainDoom Lamarr's fate post-launch remains unknown]].

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': During the latter half of the game, Shinra schemes to use the Shinra No. 26 rocket in Rocket Town to launch the four Huge Materia directly into Meteor in hopes of nuking it out of orbit. Cloud, Cid and pals board the rocket in hopes of stealing the Huge Materia for themselves and wind up trapped inside when the rocket launches, thereby finally fulfilling Cid's dream of traveling to space. Regardless of whether or not the party claims the Huge Materia, they eject via escape pod and safely return to the Planet to stop Sephiroth.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Accidentally stowing away on the TARDIS, a spacecraft disguised as a police box, is one of the traditional ways that one becomes the Doctor's companion.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The episode "24 Hours Until Doomsday" ends with Terrence Meyers accidentally trapping himself in a prototype rocket and getting launched into the outer atmosphere.

* ''Series/LostInSpace'': Doctor Smith was originally a saboteur who was accidentally launched with the Jupiter 2. His unaccounted for extra was partially responsible for the Robinsons getting lost.

* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'': In "One Way to the Moon", Tony and Doug land inside a rocket, just before it blasts off.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Hildibrand Manderville gets abducted by aliens in "Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures" shortly after [[spoiler:having his spirit returned to his body following his foray to the First.]] After this, the aliens subsequently deposit him [[spoiler:on Mare Lamentorum, the surface of the moon]], making him the first person to visit this place without the use of teleportation.

* ''Series/MST3K: This is how at least Joel and Mike are said to have wound up on the Satellite of Love, shot into space as test subjects, although later versions of Mike's theme song stopped mentioning it.

* ''Series/{{MysteryScienceTheatre3000}}: This is how at least Joel and Mike are said to have wound up on the Satellite of Love, shot into space as test subjects, although later versions of Mike's theme song stopped mentioning it.

* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': The cephalopodic alien called "Sam Starfall" snuck onto the spacecraft of visiting human explorers and passed out due to the Earth-normal atmosphere containing insufficient oxygen. Fortunately his species is capable of a highly-risky form of suspended metabolism, and he managed to survive while his accidental hosts were in cryostasis for the journey back to Earth. The explorers were horrified when they realized they'd brought an alien back -- among other unsettling features, Sam's chromophores required him to get a certification that he exists in only three dimensions, and humans seeing him outside his encounter suit usually take SAN damage.

* This was the original origin of Charlton Comics' ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom''; Allen Adams (or Adam, depending on the panel) was a technician performing last-minute adjustments on a Titan rocket when it launched, taking him into orbit where he became a super-being.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', this happens to Penny. When she tries to stop Sheldon Cooper meddling with the controls of the Travelling Engine, she discovers it's too late to prevent him, and his random prodding at the controls immediately projects them both first into Deep Space and then onto the surface of the Moon.[[note]]HEX realises the danger and ensures temperature and more importantly a breathable atmosphere are preserved for them.[[/note]]

* During the latter half of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Shinra schemes to use the Shinra No. 26 rocket in Rocket Town to launch the four Huge Materia directly into Meteor in hopes of nuking it out of orbit. Cloud, Cid and pals board the rocket in hopes of stealing the Huge Materia for themselves and wind up trapped inside when the rocket launches, thereby finally fulfilling Cid's dream of traveling to space. Regardless of whether or not the party claims the Huge Materia, they eject via escape pod and safely return to the Planet to stop Sephiroth.
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode Two'', upon meeting with Kleiner and Magnusson in the White Forest rocket silo, Kleiner's pet headcrab Lamarr can be seen scrambling into the satellite rocket through an open hatch and falling asleep inside. Later on during the launch, Kleiner notes a small weight anomaly caused by Lamarr still resting inside of the rocket, but this is ignored and the launch goes forward as planned. [[UncertainDoom Lamarr's fate post-launch remains unknown]].

** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]", during the filming of the first revamped episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Courage of the Cosmos]]'', the starship ''Phoenix'' smashes through the ceiling and goes into space (Scrooge told [[DitzyGenius Gyro]] to make the set as real as possible, and Gyro [[LiteralMinded took him literally]]). This causes trouble when the crew (the boys, Launchpad, and a grandstanding actor) encounters very real and hostile aliens.
** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E39TheRightDuck The Right Duck]]", Launchpad was supposed to board a simulator, but accidentally ends up in a rocket containing a space probe headed to Mars, and when Doofus tries to warn him, they're both sent to Mars.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' in the episode "Bravo 13" mistook NASA for a theme park and a rocket for a ride which resulted in him going into space.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' in the episode "Bravo 13" mistook NASA for a theme park and a rocket for a ride which resulted in him going into space.

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode Two'', upon meeting with Kleiner and Magnusson in the White Forest rocket silo, Kleiner's pet headcrab Lamarr can be seen scrambling into the satellite rocket through an open hatch and falling asleep inside. Later on during the launch, Kleiner notes a small weight anomaly caused by Lamarr still resting inside of the rocket, but this is ignored and the launch goes forward as planned.

Despite what fiction would have you to believe, this type of scenario is impossible in RealLife. There are so many safety and security measures in place for spacecraft launches that the chance of someone stumbling into one and accidentally pressing something to launch themselves into space is zero. Launches are not as simple as pressing a BigRedButton labelled "LAUNCH". It requires advanced preparation days or weeks beforehand, and final approval to launch goes to MissionControl. The chance of someone stowing away on a spacecraft is also impossible because of how dangerous it really is, and it will result in death of the occupant either by suffocation to the vacuum of space, starvation due to lack of life support, radiation exposure, or other manners of space-related issues. Needless to say, this trope pretty much runs on RuleOfCool and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Accidental launches and accidental stowaways are more feasible in ScienceFiction due to the lack of the aforementioned reality checks, but even then, these are still in the realm of fiction.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E39TheRightDuck The Right Duck]]", Launchpad was supposed to board a simulator, but accidentally ends up in a rocket containing a space probe headed to Mars, and when Doofus tries to warn him, they're both sent to Mars.

* ''Series/LostInSpace'': Doctor Smith was originally a saboteur who was accidentally launched with the Jupiter 2. His unaccounted for extra was partially responsible for the Robinsons getting lost.

Compare FallingIntoTheCockpit.

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* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', this happens to Penny. When she tries to stop Sheldon Cooper meddling with the controls of the Travelling Engine, she discovers it's too late to prevent him, and his random prodding at the controls immediately projects them both first into Deep Space and then onto the surface of the Moon.[[note]]HEX realises the danger and ensures temperature and more importantly a breathable atmosphere are preserved for them.[[/note]]
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* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''/''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'',
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