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Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is an American retired NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel.A flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.
The 1971 Ibrox disaster, also known as the Second Ibrox Disaster, was a crush among the crowd at an Old Firm football game (Rangers v Celtic), which led to 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries. It happened on 2 January 1971 in an exit stairway at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow , Scotland.
The crew of Soyuz 11 died after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A cabin vent valve construction defect caused it to open at service module separation. The recovery team found the crew dead. These three are, as of 2025, the only human fatalities in space (above 100 kilometers (330,000 ft)). [4] [5]
After years of anticipation, on Nov. 22, the mother of two from West Virginia not only achieved that dream but also made history as the 100th woman to travel to space with Blue Origin.
The mission crew continued their work as a part of Expedition 71/72 and will return with SpaceX Crew-9 that was launched with two crew members instead of planned four. [ 87 ] June 24: US EVA-90 spacewalk lasted for only 31 minutes due to a water leak in the umbilical unit connected to Tracy Dyson 's spacesuit shortly after opening the airlock ...
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The mission is slated to launch no sooner than spring of this year. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio holds the single spaceflight record , at 371 days, while Whitson holds the cumulative record at 675 ...