Since 1961, during the last 43 years, the world has witnessed 10 satellite disaster, which killed 18 astronaut, and about 12 others, were killed during the exercises or tests.
In March of 1961, before the start of any manned missions to the space of about a month, was the first astronaut to lose his life is the Soviet Valentin Bondarenko, who died burned when a fire broke out during his experiments.
In April 1961 the conquest of space began, but in July of the same year, resulting in a technical malfunction in the space capsule "Liberty Bell 7" special program "NASA" space, to the fullness with water and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, and almost the process kills the experimental pilot Gus Grissom.
In October 1964, when the navigator Theodore Freeman was forced to launch himself from training aircraft after colliding with the front window was a bird killed during the first American space flight training, but he was close to the ground and died.
In March 1965, during the first experience to walk in outer space, swelled wetsuit Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov to the degree that he was unable to return to the vehicle, "Fosgud 2", and after leaving room for air to leak from the suit, and to reduce the pressure inside, barely able to enter the the vehicle was forced later to fall in place hundreds of miles away from the site of the decision, and the crew spent the night outside the vehicle at a temperature too low.
In January 1967, the crew vehicle, "Apollo 1" Three Gus Grissom and Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed during training boot space flight was scheduled for the following month.
In April of the same year, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed, navigator vehicle "Soyuz 1" when it crashed during the cockpit crashed into the ground after the failure of the launch of the parachute during landing.
After 3 years, ie, in April 1970, the oxygen tank explosion in the vehicle, "Apollo 13" led to the abandonment of astronauts to complete their mission to the moon, and forced astronauts Jim Lovell and Jack Soegrt and Fred Haise to work under limited energy and low-grade heat and lack of water and low air level, and remained on this case 4 days before you can "NASA" from being returned to the ground safely.
In June 1971, astronauts Soviets died, the crew vehicle "Soyuz 11", Georgi Dobrovolsky, Victor Batsayev and Vladislav Volkov due to suffocation and lack of oxygen after through the valve led to the initiation of a sudden moments after the separation of the lander on the Soviet space station "Salyut 1".
In January 1986, seven American astronauts were killed 37 seconds after the launch of the space shuttle "Challenger".
In February 2003, seven other pioneers of space, including an Israeli, crash space "Columbia" shuttle killed returning from distant space and entering the airspace of the land.
