There have been a number of significant accidents and incidents in the history of spaceflight. In particular, incidents during human spaceflight missions have resulted in 18 astronaut and cosmonaut fatalities. Additionally, there have been some astronaut fatalities during other spaceflight-related activities, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire which killed all three crew members.. Vladimir Komarov : Parachute failure : April 24, 1967 -Soyuz 1 Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev & Vladislav Volkov: Decompression : June 30, 1971 - Soyuz 11 Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik, Michael J. Smith & Dick Scobee : Vehicle disintegration during launch – Space Shuttle Challenger disaster January 28, 1986 - STS-51-L Rick D. Husband, William McCool, Michael P. Anderson David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark & Ilan Ramon Vehicle disintegration on re-entry – Space Shuttle Columbia disaster : February 1, 2003 -STS-107 There has also been an accident on a flight that was considered a spaceflight by those involved but not under the internationally accepted definition: Michael J. Adams. Control failure ; November 15, 1967 -X-15 Flight In addition to accidents during spaceflights, 11 astronauts have died during training : Valentin Bondarenko: Fire in low-pressure chamber : March 23, 1961 Theodore Freeman: Training jet crash : October 31 1964 Elliot See & Charles Bassett: Training jet crash - NASA T-38 crash : February 28, 1966 Gus Grissom, Edward White II & Roger Chaffee Fire on board during launch rehearsal : January 27, 1967 Apollo 1 Clifton C.C. Williams: Training jet crash : October 5 ,1967 Robert Lawrence: Training jet crash: December 8 ,1967 Yuri Gagarin: Training jet crash : March 27,1968 - Soyuz 3 Sergei Vozovikov: Drowned during water recovery training : July 11,1993
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