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[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.
Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19, but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970. Because of Apollo 13's free-return trajectory, Lovell, Swigert and Haise flew higher above the Moon's 180° meridian (opposite Earth) than anyone else has flown (254 km/158 mi).
In the NASA report "Scientific Rationale Summaries for Apollo Candidate Lunar Exploration Landing Sites" from March 11, 1970, Apollo 18 is targeted for Copernicus, and Apollo 19 is assigned Hadley rille (the eventual landing site of Apollo 15). The Apollo 20 mission had been canceled two months before, but the report still suggested its target ...
Four died in training accidents before they could fly in space. All of the surviving ten flew Apollo missions; five also flew Gemini missions. Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan and David Scott walked on the Moon. Group 3 was the first to waive the requirement of a test pilot background, though military jet fighter aircraft experience was ...
Thomas Ronald "Tom" Baron (c. 1938 – 27 April 1967) [1] was a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation (NAA), when it was the primary contractor to build the Apollo command module.
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 10:52, 05 January 2025 (UTC).
Frank Borman, commander of the December 1968 Apollo 8 mission that was the first to fly around the moon, died Nov. 7 at age 95. Frank Borman, commander of the December 1968 Apollo 8 mission that ...