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  2. As of November 2023, a total of 676 people have flown into space and 19 of them have died. This sets the current statistical fatality rate at 2.8 percent. [3] NASA astronauts who died on duty are memorialized at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida.

  3. Sep 25, 2023 · In the last half-century, about 30 astronauts and cosmonauts have died while training for or attempting dangerous space missions.

  4. Oct 8, 2019 · However, of the roughly 550 people who have so far ventured into space, only three have actually died there. The Fatal Frontier Early in the space race, both NASA and the USSR experienced a surge in deadly jet crashes that killed a number of pilots testing advanced rocket-propelled planes.

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  5. A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for a space mission, in four separate incidents. Given the risks involved in space flight, this number is...

  6. Jan 4, 2024 · A total of 18 astronauts have died during spaceflights. These deaths occurred during three separate incidents associated with space exploration.

  7. Mar 6, 2024 · According to NASA's associate director of safety and mission assurance, Nigel Packham, a total of 21 people have died in space. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/ NASA) Five spaceflight missions...

  8. Apr 29, 2024 · Since human space exploration began just over 60 years ago, 20 people have died – 14 in the NASA space shuttle tragedies of 1986 and 2003, three cosmonauts during the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission, and...

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