Space program fatalities

Soviet cosmonaut (1927–1967)

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated about 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 16:39:13 UTC. It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight.

first crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

crewed Soviet space mission to the Salyut 1 Space Station

On 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 of two Space Shuttle missions to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.

STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, in which all seven crew members were killed in the re-entry on the Earth's atmosphere; the shuttle was destroyed along with most of its scientific payloads.

STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.

The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is a retired air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It was manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.

Soviet cosmonaut (1937–1961)

fatal Soviet launch pad disaster

American astronaut (1932–1967)

American astronaut (1930-1964)

American test pilot and NASA astronaut (1927-1966)

United States Air Force test pilot and astronaut (1931–1966)

aviator, engineer and astronaut (1930–1967)

American astronaut (1935–1967)

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architectural structure

incident involving the VSS Enterprise

Vietnamese astronaut (1949–1981)

United States failed satellite launch

Brazilian space launch disaster

aviation accident

cosmonaut (1958-1993)