Lubcha132 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 2776 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 993 times:
i was gonna say yuri gagarin died in a plane crash.
but how many people didn't die in space? what is the ratio?
Cfalk From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 992 times:
Michael Adams did not die on a mission. If we included all those who died on outside activities, the list would run very long, including people like Gagarin, Eliot see, Charlie Basset, and a lot more.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29349 posts, RR: 62 Reply 4, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 950 times:
Michael Adams died flying the X-15 test vehicle.
During the fatal flight he reached an altitude of 266,000 feet, some sixty thousand feet higher then the point where Columbia broke up yesterday.
At a speed of Mach 5 and an altitude of 233,000 feet the craft yawed to the right and entered a spin. Adams almost recovered at 100,000 feet but the control system circumvents the pilots control and the aircraft broke up.
Adams was posthumously awarded astronaut wings for this flight since he broke the 50 mile standard that Air Force uses to award astronaut wings.
My understanding was that Yuri was not training for a mission but on a currency flight to maintain his pilot proficiency not training for a numbered mission. There have been several other astronauts killed on these training flights that I also chose not to list here.
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Sccutler From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 5088 posts, RR: 28 Reply 5, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 917 times:
Just names...
...names of those who would challenge death, defiantly go forward for us all.
They remain eternally in the heavens.
...three miles from BRONS, clear for the ILS one five approach...
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