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Cockney rhyming slang for 'dead'. Bought the farm [2] Died Slang Also, shortened to 'bought it' Bucket list List of things to do before dying Popular culture derivation Derived from the older phrase "kick the bucket"; popularized by the 2007 film The Bucket List: Cargo 200: Corpses of soldiers Military slang
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As of December 2023, a total of 676 people have flown into space and 19 of them have died. This sets the current statistical fatality rate at 2.8 percent. [3] NASA astronauts who died on duty are memorialized at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida.
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 ...
Rachel Zimmerman Brachman (born Zimmerman; 1972) is a Canadian-born space scientist, educator, and inventor. [1] She invented the "Blissymbol Printer" in 1984-86, making it simple for users with physical disabilities to communicate.
Claudia Joan Alexander (May 30, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Canadian-born American research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science. [1] [2] She worked for the United States Geological Survey and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic “Earthrise” photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a ...
Gregory Errol Chamitoff (born 6 August 1962) is a Canadian-born American engineer and former NASA astronaut.He has been to space twice, spending 6 months aboard the ISS across Expedition 17 and 18 in 2008, and another 15 days as part of STS-134 in 2011.