Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Scandal: Apollo 15" video.
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@philgiglio7922
Astronaut and Cosmonaut fatalities during spaceflight:
18
Astronaut and Cosmonaut fatalities during training and equipment testing:
13
Non-Astronaut/Cosmonaut fatalities associated with spaceflight:
Fatalities caused by rocket explosions:
196
Other non-astronaut/cosmonaut fatalities:
28
Caveats:
1. This includes all nations space programs, not just US and USSR/Russia.
2. The non-astronaut figures include deaths associated with unmanned space missions.
3. The USSR and China figures are the respective government figures, and frankly, communist governments lie a lot. The figures are probably higher for their incidents (in some cases there is independent evidence of this), and some incidents probably were not reported.
4. "Not included are accidents or incidents associated with intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests, unmanned space flights not resulting in fatality or serious injury, or Soviet or German rocket-powered aircraft projects of World War II. Also not included are alleged unreported Soviet space accidents" (from article)
(I had to remove the url citation from this to make sure the channel rules wouldn't auto-shadow-delete it.)
Accidents, including fatalities, have always been associated with:
1. construction.
2. transportation.
3. industrial activity
4. exploration.
5. cutting edge technological programs
and of course,
6. space travel, which incorporates all of the above.
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