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This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury. These include incidents during flight or training for crewed space missions and testing, assembly, preparation, or flight of crewed and robotic spacecraft. Not included are accidents or incidents associated with intercontinental ...
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1980s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
Died from long-term complications of the Flight 74 accident in 1962. James McDivitt (1929–2022) — Gemini 4, Apollo 9; Donald McMonagle — STS-39, STS-54, STS-66; Ronald McNair (1950–1986) † — STS-41-B. Died in the Challenger liftoff disintegration . Carl Meade — STS-38, STS-50, STS-64; Jessica Meir — Soyuz MS-15 (Expedition 61/62 ...
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut splashed to Earth early Friday, Oct. 25, after a nearly eight-month science mission at the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX Crew-8 mission ...
Christa McAuliffe. Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist. [2] McAuliffe received her bachelor's degree in education and history ...
Andy Swift. October 13, 2023 at 2:00 PM. Mark Goddard, best known for playing Major Don West on CBS’ Lost in Space, died Tuesday at the age of 87. He passed away in Hingham, Mass., his wife ...
Unsuccessful attempt to board Salyut 1 space station. 44 Georgy Dobrovolsky Viktor Patsayev Vladislav Volkov (2) 6 June 1971 Soyuz 11: Salyut 1: 29 June 1971 Soyuz 11: Successful boarding of Salyut 1 (first crewed space station). All crew died on re-entry due to air leak. 45 David R. Scott (3) Alfred M. Worden James B. Irwin: 26 July 1971 ...