2. Vladimir Komalov was selected as the first Soviet cosmonaut in 1960, and took part in the Dongfang-4 mission as Pavel Popovich's replacement. I went into space for the first time in the Ascension 1 mission, and died in the second mission alliance 1 due to the parachute failure of the spacecraft.
3. 197 1 7 In July, when the American Apollo 15 spacecraft landed on the moon, astronaut David Scott placed a small aluminum sculpture "The Fallen Astronaut" made by Belgian artist Hui Yidongke on the moon, next to which was a commemorative card engraved with 14 people who died in space flight or training between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Global fatal space accidents:
1.1961March 23rd,1was confirmed as the first astronaut in the Soviet Union. Bondarenko conducted intense training in the cabin filled with pure oxygen. During the break, he wiped the part where the sensor was fixed with an alcohol cotton ball and threw it on the electrode plate. As a result, the engine room caught fire and he was badly burned. 10 hour later,
2. 1 967 65438+1On October 27th, three American Apollo/kloc-0 spacecraft failed to launch in the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the astronauts Virgil I Gleason, Edward H White and Roger B Sha Fei were killed.
3.1On April 24th, 967, when the Soyuz spacecraft piloted by Vladimir komarov of the Soviet Union returned to the ground, the decompression umbrella failed to open, the spacecraft crashed and the astronauts were killed.
4.1971On June 29th, three Soviet cosmonauts Georgi komarov, Vladimir Volkov and Victor Pashayev returned to the ground and died 30 minutes before the scheduled landing time due to decompression error.
5.1986 65438+1October 28th 7 The American space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts, including a middle school female teacher, Christa Macaulay.
On February/KOOC-0/day, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia lost contact with the ground control center/KOOC-0/6 minutes before the scheduled landing time, and then disintegrated over central Texas, and seven astronauts survived.
7. The crash of the American space shuttle Columbia in 2003 shocked the whole world. This is a great loss for the world aerospace industry. This disaster has once again made "whether to continue manned space flight" a controversial topic.
References:
CCTV- Global Fatal Space Accident