List of Accidents and Disasters By Death Toll - Space Exploration

Space Exploration

For a more comprehensive list, see List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents.
  1. 7 – Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (over Texas/Louisiana, 2003) / Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (over Florida, 1986)
  2. 3 – Soyuz 11 (space, 1971) / Apollo 1 (Kennedy Space Center, 1967) – occurred on ground before launch
  3. 1 – Soyuz 1 (SE of Orenburg, Russia, 1967) / X-15 Flight 191 (suborbital, crashed ~50 miles NE of Edwards AFB, 1967)

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