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Kenneth Eric Money MSC (January 4, 1935 – March 6, 2023) was a Canadian scientist specialising in the human ear and an Olympic high jumper. He worked at the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine in Toronto.
Ken Money, 88, Canadian astronaut, scientist, and Olympic high jumper . [166] Seiko Obonai, 83, Japanese Olympic shot putter . [167] Irvo Otieno, 28, Kenyan-born American prisoner, asphyxiation. [168] Benigno Luigi Papa, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Taranto (1990–2011) and bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi (1981–1990).
Loss of control in low visibility; wife Gwen Shamblin Lara also died in this accident; see 2021 Percy Priest Lake Cessna 501 Citation I/SP crash: Eugène Lefebvre: France 1909 First person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash Wright Model A: Port-Aviation (Juvisy), France Crashed from ...
Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. “We lost one ...
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.
A routine flight became a first-class reunion for a pilot and one of his passengers.. On a United Airlines flight in Houston, Texas, the pilot came on the overhead speaker to deliver a special ...
[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.
The Astronaut Wives Club was an informal support group of women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn , Betty Grissom , Louise Shepard , Trudy Cooper , Marge Slayton , Rene Carpenter , and Jo Schirra .