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Two workers cleaning out a propellant tank died when exposed to poisonous nitrogen tetroxide gases within the tank. [151] 25 June 2014 McGregor, TX, US 1 Falcon 9: Lonnie LeBlanc died from head trauma after a gust of wind blew him off the a trailer transporting insulation, while he was holding down its contents with his body. [152] [153] 14 ...
Apollo 11: USA: 20 July 1969: First crewed landing on an extraterrestrial body. Luna 15: USSR: 21 July 1969: Possible attempted sample return; crashed into Moon. Not a crewed mission. Apollo 12: USA: 18 November 1969
In total at least 47 NASA rocket bodies have impacted the Moon. A recent impactor, the unusual double-crater of which was photographed on March 4, 2022 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , is of unknown provenance; no space program has taken credit for it, [ 2 ] although a later study attributed it to a spent upper stage from the Chang'e 5-T1 ...
Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water, usually by parachute. This has been the primary recovery method of American capsules including NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon.
The six-year-old died during an MRI scan at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, after an oxygen tank was magnetically pulled into the machine and fractured his skull. [420] [421] Brittanie Cecil: 18 March 2002: The 13-year-old died from her injuries at an NHL game after a deflected puck struck her in the left temple. She was ...
Frank Borman, commander of the December 1968 Apollo 8 mission that was the first to fly around the moon, died Nov. 7 at age 95.
The crew compartment, human remains, and many other fragments from the shuttle were recovered from the ocean floor after a three-month search-and-recovery operation. The exact timing of the deaths of the crew is unknown, but several crew members are thought to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft.
In 1993, Sun, a U.S. supermarket tabloid, ran a story recounting multiple cosmonaut deaths and ensuing body recovery missions between 1968 and 1988. [33] In 2010 the Canadian band Wolf Parade released a song titled "Yulia", which lead singer Dan Boeckner confirmed in an interview as recounting a lost cosmonaut. [34]