Factual error: Two pilot/astronauts steal a space shuttle by firing it up and launching it off the back of the Boeing 747 transporter. This cannot happen: the 747 can't lift the shuttle with a full fuel load – it only just lifts it empty. It is not a fictional, futuristic spacecraft. It's a bog standard shuttle, stolen from NASA, on the back of the modified 747 used by them to transport the orbiter from its landing site to Cape Canaveral. (Why would they carry a fully fuelled shuttle anyway?)
Moonraker (1979)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Desmond Llewelyn, Roger Moore, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Richard Kiel, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale
When Jaws realizes that Drax will kill anyone that's inferior, he fears for his girlfriend's life and helps Bond. Bond kills Drax. The space station is destroyed. Bond and Dr. Goodhead chase the globes in Moonraker 5 because it has a laser and destroy them. Jaws and his girlfriend survive. In classic James Bond style, he and Goodhead end up in bed, making out, as the credits roll.
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[The staff of MI6 are watching a large screen that shows Bond and Dr. Goodhead making love in space.]
Minister: My god, what's Bond doing!?
Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.
Trivia: The film's budget had been more than the first six Bond films added together, but Broccoli's gamble paid off. Upon release in the summer of 1979, the film enjoyed huge success globally, and the film easily recouped its budget.
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Answer: They would die or escape and go feral, as would zoo animals, farm animals etc.