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Has anyone ever died in space?
A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for an area mission, in four separate incidents. Given the risks involved in space flight, this number is surprisingly low.
The two worst disasters both involved NASA’s spacecraft . On 28 January 1986 the Challenger spacecraft blew up 73 seconds after take-off, due to a failure on a sealant ring that allowed hot gas from the boosters wont to lift the craft within the first two minutes of flight to hit the large main external tanks containing hydrogen-oxygen fuel. All seven crew members died, including Christa McAuliffe, an educator from New Hampshire selected on a special NASA programme to bring civilians into space. The Challenger disaster remains perhaps the foremost notorious within the history of spaceflight, due to the amount of individuals , many of them schoolchildren, who saw it survive TV.
In 2003 an extra seven astronauts died when the shuttle Columbia broke abreast of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. a bit of froth insulation had broken away during launch, damaging a wing and sealing the mission’s fate almost before it had started. A subsequent report sharply criticised NASA for allowing the incident to happen and failing to intervene during the mission.
The remaining four fatalities during spaceflight were all cosmonauts from the Soviet Union . the primary was Vladimir Komarov on 24 April 1967, when the parachute on the landing capsule of his Soyuz 1 mission did not open. This was the primary crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft that's still wont to send people to the International space platform . In 1971 all three of the Soyuz 11 mission crew died when their capsule depressurised before re-entry on their way back from humanity’s first ever stay an area station, Salyut 1.
A further 13 astronauts and cosmonauts have died during training and testing for spaceflight. Perhaps the foremost notorious incident was a fireplace on the launch pad of the Apollo 1 mission in January 1967. The three victims were Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, who had been the second American ever in space, and Ed White, who in 1965 had become the primary American to steer in space. The Apollo programme to succeed in the moon was almost cancelled within the wake of the disaster. As it was, crewed flights were suspended for 20 months. Richard Webb
Has anyone ever died in space?
A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for an area mission, in four separate incidents. Given the risks involved in space flight, this number is surprisingly low.
The two worst disasters both involved NASA’s spacecraft . On 28 January 1986 the Challenger spacecraft blew up 73 seconds after take-off, due to a failure on a sealant ring that allowed hot gas from the boosters wont to lift the craft within the first two minutes of flight to hit the large main external tanks containing hydrogen-oxygen fuel. All seven crew members died, including Christa McAuliffe, an educator from New Hampshire selected on a special NASA programme to bring civilians into space. The Challenger disaster remains perhaps the foremost notorious within the history of spaceflight, due to the amount of individuals , many of them schoolchildren, who saw it survive TV.
In 2003 an extra seven astronauts died when the shuttle Columbia broke abreast of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. a bit of froth insulation had broken away during launch, damaging a wing and sealing the mission’s fate almost before it had started. A subsequent report sharply criticised NASA for allowing the incident to happen and failing to intervene during the mission.
The remaining four fatalities during spaceflight were all cosmonauts from the Soviet Union . the primary was Vladimir Komarov on 24 April 1967, when the parachute on the landing capsule of his Soyuz 1 mission did not open. This was the primary crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft that's still wont to send people to the International space platform . In 1971 all three of the Soyuz 11 mission crew died when their capsule depressurised before re-entry on their way back from humanity’s first ever stay an area station, Salyut 1.
A further 13 astronauts and cosmonauts have died during training and testing for spaceflight. Perhaps the foremost notorious incident was a fireplace on the launch pad of the Apollo 1 mission in January 1967. The three victims were Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, who had been the second American ever in space, and Ed White, who in 1965 had become the primary American to steer in space. The Apollo programme to succeed in the moon was almost cancelled within the wake of the disaster. As it was, crewed flights were suspended for 20 months. Richard Webb
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