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As of December 2024, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents. [2] Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so.
The explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, taken from the TV-3 camera. At T+72.284, the right SRB pulled away from the aft strut that attached it to the ET, causing lateral acceleration that was felt by the crew. At the same time, pressure in the LH2 tank began dropping. Pilot Mike Smith said "Uh-oh," which was the last crew comment recorded.
The year 1986 saw the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after lift-off, killing all seven aboard, [1] the first in-flight deaths of American astronauts. This accident followed the successful flight of Columbia just weeks earlier, [2] and dealt a major setback to the U.S. crewed space program, suspending the Shuttle program for 32 months.
Just seconds after Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first test flight of its biggest and most powerful rocket yet, the craft started tumbling uncontrollably and exploded, leaving a dramatic cloud ...
Now new research claims to have shown that the explosion is in fact a nearly perfect sphere, and is completely symmetrical. Scientists have pursued a number of possible explanations – such as ...
Apollo 13 was launched; after suffering an explosion in deep space it had to circumnavigate the moon and use the LM as a life boat. Apollo 13 was a successful disaster in which the crew survived. The Soviet space program continued its Luna program with Luna 17 , which delivered the robotic Lunokhod 1 rover to the lunar surface, and Luna 16 ...
The rocket’s explosion reportedly rattled doors up to five miles away SpaceX Starship explosion fallout covers city with ‘particulate’ Skip to main content
The model landed by parachute undamaged and is in the collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The first proposed shock absorber was a ring-shaped airbag. It was soon realized that, should an explosion fail, the 1,100,000–2,200,000-pound (500,000–1,000,000 kg) pusher plate would tear away the airbag on the rebound.