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As of March 2024, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents. [2] Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so. In each of these accidents the entire crew was killed.
The International Space Station, as seen by a visiting spacecraft in 2021. This article is a list of accidents and incidents related to the International Space Station (ISS). It includes mishaps occurring on board the ISS, flights to and from the space station, as well as other program related incidents. Excluded from the list are routine ...
The year 2023 saw rapid growth and significant technical achievements in spaceflight. For the third year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts (223) and successful orbital launches (211). The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches ...
Alaska 369 aborted takeoff. The ATC cleared a Southwest plane to cross the runway, and at the same time, Southwest Flight 1478 was cleared to take off on the same runway. Southwest 1478 aborted takeoff. Two United Airlines planes collided on March 6, 2023 at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.
List of space debris fall incidents. Space debris usually burns up in the atmosphere, but larger debris objects can reach the ground intact. According to NASA, an average of one cataloged piece of debris has fallen back to Earth each day for the past 50 years. Despite their size, there has been no significant property damage from the debris. [1]
November 18, 2023 at 10:55 AM. After months of delays, SpaceX finally launched its massive Starship rocket as part of a major flight test of the Mars-bound craft – before losing it around 10 ...
October 21, 2023 at 7:53 AM. It's launch day — for the record-breaking 58th orbital launch from Cape Canaveral this year! Navigational warnings indicate SpaceX is targeting 10:17 p.m. EDT to ...
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 394 times over 14 years, resulting in 391 full successes (99.24%), two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9-3), and one partial success (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), but a secondary payload was stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit).