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  2. List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    This sets the current statistical fatality rate at 2.8 percent. [3] NASA astronauts who died on duty are memorialized at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida. Cosmonauts who died on duty under the Soviet Union were generally honored by burial at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow ...

  3. 1966 NASA T-38 crash - Wikipedia

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    Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 46–116. ISBN 978-0-8032-8509-5. LCCN 2015042585. Cernan, Eugene; Davis, Don (2000). The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space.

  4. Space Mirror Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Space Mirror Memorial, which forms part of the larger Astronauts Memorial, is a National Memorial on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island, Florida. It is maintained by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF), whose offices are located in the NASA Center for Space Education next door to the ...

  5. Ronald McNair - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an American NASA astronaut and physicist.He died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven.

  6. Theodore Freeman - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Cordy Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash of a T-38 jet, marking the first fatality among the NASA Astronaut Corps.

  7. Famed Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, 90, dies in horror ...

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    William Anders, an Apollo astronaut who snapped the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo of the Earth while orbiting the moon, died at age 90 in a plane crash near the San Juan Islands on Friday ...

  8. Charles Bassett - Wikipedia

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    Charles Arthur "Charlie" Bassett II (December 30, 1931 – February 28, 1966), (Major, USAF), was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot.He went to Ohio State University for two years and later graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

  9. Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly, who helped save the crew of ...

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    Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.