So far no individual has died of natural causes in space. Like the vast reaches of space the fate of an astronaut corpse is uncharted territory. William mccool was selected by nasa in 1996.
William mccool from sts 107 2003. After her death she was awarded the congressional space medal of honor and received many recognitions from both the us and india. Kalpana died in a space mission at 41 years old and was the first indian woman to go to space.
In 1984 he successfully flew on challenger for sts 41 b as a mission. Mcnair was chosen as one of the thirty five candidates from a group of ten thousand astronauts in the nasa astronaut program. Ronald mcnair was an african american engineer scientist and nasa astronaut who died during the launch of space shuttle challenger in the year 1986.
The soyuz 11 disaster. Then on june 30 1971 humankind witnessed the first and so far only deaths to occur in space. How many astronauts have died in space.
Whether something small goes wrong within the spacecraft or while walking on the moon astronauts are constantly running. Although becoming an astronaut is every kid s dream job it s certainly one of the most dangerous careers imaginable. Updated 3 weeks ago.
A few different things can happen if an astronaut dies in space by lizzy rosenberg. No soviet or russian cosmonauts have died during spaceflight since 1971. Cosmonauts who died on duty under the soviet union were generally honored by burial at the kremlin wall necropolis in moscow.
Nasa astronauts who died on duty are memorialized at the space mirror memorial at the kennedy space center visitor complex in merritt island florida.
