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These include incidents during flight or training for crewed space missions and testing, assembly, preparation, or flight of crewed and robotic spacecraft.
How the Apollo 1 Mission Turned Deadly—Before Blastoff. NASA’s first fatal spacecraft accident happened not in deep space but right on the launch pad.
During a mission to the Mir space station in 1995, astronaut Norman Thagard was attempting to do just that with a piece of exercise equipment for performing deep knee bends. The equipment used a strap of elastic that is secured to a foot in order to create resistance.
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
Yesterday's Antares failure was not exactly unprecedented. Orbital Science’s Antares rocket exploded just seconds after liftoff yesterday. The rocket was carrying science experiments and supplies...
NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the cause of the Columbia disaster. An investigation board determined that a large piece of foam fell from the...
Do any of these things sound particularly prone to accidents? Space travel is tricky work that takes careful calculations and even more careful actions when situations get tough. Here is a list of seven accidents and disasters that have occurred during space expeditions.
The year 2021 saw more than 10 failures of various missions during or shortly after launch, from the United States to China to South Korea. Below are the list of failed space missions...
Despite the number of historic launches that did go well this year, there were of course those that either never made it to space or failed to deploy their payloads once they got there. Below is a...
The Columbia space shuttle disaster resulted in the deaths of seven astronauts and changed the way NASA prepared and carried out such missions.