Author Topic: Question about NASA (Read 197 times)

Udie · « **on:** February 03, 2003, 09:20:55 AM »

I keep hearing on Fox News about this memorial wall at the KSC in Florida. They say it has the name of the astronauts killed in the line of duty. They keep saying this will bring the total up to 24. For the life of me I can't remember more than 10 before this. The 3 in the Apollo program back in the 60's and the 7 from the Challenger.

Are they putting the death of the Soviet Kozmonauts in there too? Had they lost 7? I didn't think they had lost that many...

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2003, 09:26:43 AM »

http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/erased.htm

Dowding · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2003, 09:27:53 AM »

Maybe some died in construction projects involving NASA.

Ozark · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2003, 09:33:32 AM »

An astronaut killed in the “line of duty” is a pretty broad term. Members of the astronaut corps were killed in aviation accidents while on official NASA business. That accounts for the numbers.

Here are all the names:

http://www.amfcse.org/Those%20Honored.htm

CyranoAH · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2003, 09:37:06 AM »

I'm counting 23...

Valentine Vonderenko
March 23, 1961- Russia- Soyuz
Oxygen rich flash fire inside capsule prior to launch

Virgil "Gus" Grissom - Edward White - Rodger Chaffe
January 27, 1967- United States- Apollo 1
Oxygen rich flash fire inside capsule prior to launch

Vladimir Komarov
April 23, 1967- Russia- Soyuz-1
Parachutes failed to deploy correctly on reentry resulting in catastrophic vehicle crash

Col. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin
March 27, 1968- Russia- MiG-15 crash during training

Georgi Dobrovolsky - Viktor Patsayev - Vladislav Volkov
June 30, 1971- Russia- a valve opened prematurely upon reentry
fatally depressurizing the Vostok capsule

McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee, Smith, McAuliffe, Jarvis
January 28, 1986- United States, Space Shuttle Challenger- STS51L- O-ring failure on booster rocket
initiated catastrophic destruction of entire shuttle vehicle seconds after launch

Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, back row, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson and Ilan Ramon
February 1st, 2003- United States, Space Shuttle Columbia- STS107- Heat tile failure on left wing
initiated catastrophic destruction of entire shuttle vehicle upon reentry (to be confirmed)

to all of them

Daniel