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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]
Apollo 7 (October 11–22, 1968) was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that had killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967.
Apollo 7: 22 October 1968 Apollo 7: First three person U.S. crew. Launched over 20 months after Apollo 1 fatalities. 29 Georgy Beregovoy: 26 October 1968 Soyuz 3: 30 October 1968 Soyuz 3: Failed to dock with uncrewed Soyuz 2. 30 Frank Borman (2) Jim Lovell (3) William Anders: 21 December 1968 Apollo 8: 27 December 1968 Apollo 8: First crewed ...
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in a statement ...
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Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
The remaining six members of this group were selected for their first space flights on Apollo: Roger B. Chaffee – Selected as Pilot (third seat) on Apollo 1, was killed with Grissom and White in the fire. Donn F. Eisele – Flew second seat on Apollo 7. R. Walter Cunningham – Flew third seat on Apollo 7.
Apollo 15: Moon: 7 August 1971 Apollo 15: Fourth lunar landing. First Lunar Rover. First deep space EVA. 46 John W. Young (4) Thomas K. Mattingly (1) Charles M. Duke: 16 April 1972 Apollo 16: Moon: 27 April 1972 Apollo 16: Fifth lunar landing. Second Lunar Rover. Second deep space EVA. 47 Eugene A. Cernan (3) Ronald E. Evans Harrison H. Schmitt ...