The Apollo 1 spacecraft did catch fire and burn up, killing the crew of three, during a training exercise on the launchpad in 1967. That however was just a trainig exercise, not an actual attempt to launch, and had that mission evenutally gone forward it was just going to be a test of the spacecraft in Earth orbit, not a lunar mission. Although Apollo 13 did have to be aborted it returned to Earth succesfully and without casualties. The other missions were all successful.
A few more died in training. For example, Charlie Bassett and Elliot M See, the original crew for Gemini 9. Since Gemini was developmental work for the moonshot program, all these guys can be counted as well. Challenger and Columbia DeathsThe loss of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia claimed the lives of seven astronauts each time. There have also been at least four Soviet deaths in the Soyuz programs and many more on the ground. You can find information on all deaths at the web links on the left.
Russian space program deathsVladimir Komarov died on board of Soyuz 1 when parachute failed to open during reentry.
Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov died on board of Soyuz 11 when vehicle decompressed on approach to reentry.
Total of 22 people were killed in space relaed accidents,according to Wikipedia.
Yuri Gagarin
A monkey is close to a human so it was to see how a human type system would react into space. Plus, if there had been an accident a monkey would have been lost and not a human. Monkeys can also be trained to do things that would be needed as well.
Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into outer space, is often referred to as the "Columbus of the Space Age" for his pioneering voyage aboard Vostok 1 in 1961. Gagarin's historic mission marked the beginning of human space exploration and opened the doors to further advancements in space travel.
The space shuttle revolutionized space travel by being the first reusable spacecraft, enabling cost-effective access to space. It also enabled the construction and maintenance of the International Space Station, advancing human presence in space. However, with its retirement in 2011, space travel has shifted towards new spacecraft designs and technologies.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human sent to space.
That special gear that has been developed for human space travel was the space suits. The space suits kept human alive in the harsh environment of space, temperature extremes and vacuum.
To see if it was safe for a human to travel into safe. If the monkey made it, a human might survive space travel. If the ape died, then it was not safe for a human to go into space. The chimp lived, so human beings were sent into outer space.
Of all the deaths caused by space travel, 100% of them were caused by space travel.Of all the people who have been launched from the Earth aboard space vehicles, however,the number of deaths has been relatively minuscule.To come at it from another angle . . .-- Space 'travel' has been a reality since Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961 . . . roughlyfifty years now.-- During that time, I'm guesstimating that perhaps 30 people have died in thecourse of preparation, execution, or conclusion of space travel.-- The CIA World Factbook estimates the world crude mortality rate at 8.37 per 1000 per year.-- Assuming a world population of 6 billion, that says that during the fifty years ofspace travel, something like 2.5 billion people have died.-- That puts space-travel casualties at 0.0000012 percent of all deaths.
Craters, months, werewolves, tides, and space travel are all associated with the Moon.
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Yuri Gagarin
humans need to travel to outer space to reduce the chances of human species being wiped out by a single disaster such as meteor
Human Space Travel is so expensive because it takes alot of money to build the spaceship and then you would have to test it which might cause it to crash.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel in outer space on April 12th, 1961
It was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin.