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[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities. As of 2024, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.
A SpaceX Starship Flight 3 Rocket sits near Boca Chica Beach, where the company has a launch area. SpaceX employee Kevin Edward Escobar died after swimming at the same beach on Sunday (Getty Images)
The search for a missing SpaceX employee in Texas has been suspended after his body was deposited by the tide on the shoreline of Boca Chica Beach, according to the U.S. Coast Guard and local ...
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Allegedly, the falling debris killed a livestock animal and injured another as one metal fragment struck a sheep pen. The debris is likely from the third stage of the Long March 3B rocket with a Y86 serial, launched in September 2021. [30] [31] [32] The Indian space agency ISRO is investigating both incidents.
A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The ...
More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial ...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts for the first time off on December 8, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The company later acknowledged there had been a rocket engine anomaly during its launch.