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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. As of 2025, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.
A fictional astronaut must be presented as living in the period of the early exploration of space, i.e. from the beginning of the Space Age to the present, and for a few decades into the future; currently, in the period of about 1960–2060.
Unflown Apollo astronaut Howard, implied to be the astronaut character from The Exorcist (1973) (q.v.), takes part in classified mission launched into retrograde orbit from Guiana Space Centre to deploy Lockheed Martin payload known as Charybdis. Howard and Trammell were members of Flight Group 13.
To honor the astronauts lost in the Challenger accident, as well as the three who died in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967 and the Columbia accident, every year at the end of January NASA ...
William Anders, an Apollo astronaut who snapped the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo of the Earth while orbiting the moon, died at age 90 in a plane crash near the San Juan Islands on Friday ...
William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water ...
Fictional NASA astronauts (15 P) P. Fictional space pilots (69 P) Space pirates (1 C, 54 P) Pages in category "Fictional astronauts"
Unnamed astronauts Lunar spacecraft: Dave Reynolds (Commander) Three unnamed astronauts Destination Space (1959), TV movie Space Station B.B. ("Benedict's Billions") (US) Lunar spacecraft (US) Near Future Failed attempts to launch first lunar orbit mission from space station. [267] Moonship: McRoberts, Maj. (Commander) (First name not given)