Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The U.S. has lost quite a few astronauts: three during training for the Apollo 1 mission, seven during liftoff of the shuttle Challenger, and seven on the shuttle Columbia during re-entry. But no Americans have actually died in space. However, three cosmonauts died in orbit during the Soyuz 11 mission in 1971, as they began their journey home from Russia’s Salyut 1 Space Station.
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