The brothers are firmly convinced that the Russians have freely used many human guinea pigs to achieve their space successes. Accumulated evidence indicates that ... The American list contains the names of six astronauts who died before they had a chance to make a flight into space. read more
Now all astronauts and cosmonauts wear Sokol pressure suits during events like launch, deorbit, landing or docking on the Soyuz spacecrafts to avoid an accident like this in the future All other astronaut or cosmonaut deaths have been in the atmosphere. read more
(In the statistics below,"astronaut" is applied to all space travellers to avoid the use of"astronaut/cosmonaut".) During spaceflight. As of March 2018, in-flight accidents have killed 18 astronauts, in four separate incidents. read more
Apollo's 1 fire: Though the Apollo missions never lost an astronaut during a spaceflight, two fatal accidents did occur during related activities. Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White II and Roger Chaffee perished during a supposedly"non-hazardous" grounded test of the command module on Jan. 27, 1967. read more