Has Anyone Died In Space

There have also been some non astronaut fatalities during spaceflight related activities.
Has anyone died in space. Georgi dobrovolski vladislav volkov and viktor patsayev are the only people who have died in space. Which begs the question has anyone ever died in space. Monday october 7 2019. The soviet space program also suffered the first and so far only deaths in space in 1971 when cosmonauts georgi dobrovolski viktor patsayev vladislav volkov died while.
As a general rule astronauts have trouble going up or sitting still challenger and apollo 1 while cosmonauts have to worry about getting back down. Since the dawn of space travel a sum total of 18 astronauts cosmonauts have died during the space flight missions. Cosmonauts georgi dobrovolski left vladislav volkov middle and viktor patsayev right the only three people to die in space are featured on three ussr stamps. Many others have given their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.
Well if you ve ever pondered over that query then the truth is yes people have lost their lives trying to fill in the gaps about what lies in the heavens. There s no doubt space is an extremely dangerous place but only a handful of space travelers have actually died there. By jake parks published. The first human in space yuri gagarin died in a jet crash on march 27 1968 while preparing for the soyuz 3 mission.
Astronauts have also died while training for space missions such as the apollo 1launch pad fire which killed an entire crew of three. Valentin bondarenko the first casualty on our road to space died from a fire that occurred while training in a low pressure chamber.