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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. No Soviet or Russian cosmonauts have died during spaceflight since 1971.
(NASA Astronaut Group 5) February 7, 1932: March 18, 2020 (aged 88) 39: Apollo 15 July 26 – August 7, 1971: Air Force: 11 Ken Mattingly (NASA Astronaut Group 5) March 17, 1936: October 31, 2023 (aged 87) 36: Apollo 16 April 16–27, 1972: Navy: Later flew two Space Shuttle missions. 12 Ron Evans (NASA Astronaut Group 5)
A tree for each astronaut was planted in NASA's Astronaut Memorial Grove at the Johnson Space Center, along with trees for each astronaut from the Apollo 1 and Challenger disasters. [69] The exhibit Forever Remembered at KSC Visitor Complex features the cockpit window frames from Columbia. [70]
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.
[50] Russian officials accused NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor of boring the hole, a claim described by Ars Technica as "preposterous" and "a complete fabrication". [51] Soyuz MS-10 rocket shortly after disintegration; October 11: The Soyuz MS-10 crew mission fails to orbit after its booster disintegrates in flight.
William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water ...
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general ...
Michael Alsbury † — Commercial astronaut, died in the VSSEnterprise test flight PF04 crash; Christopher Altman — NASA-trained commercial astronaut, Association of Spaceflight Professionals 2011 [1] [2] Scott Altman — STS-90, STS-106, STS-109, STS-125; Pablo Álvarez Fernández — No flights. 2022 ESA Astronaut group.