14 people have lost their lives in space shuttle accidents - seven each on Challenger and Columbia. (Two searchers were also killed in a helicopter accident during recovery of the Columbia.)
Seven astronauts lost their life's during the Columbia disaster.
Seven astronauts died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003.
Ilan Ramon but he sadly died in the 2003 space shuttle COLOMBIA disaster
She got killed from the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster.
14 on the space shuttle
Seven astronauts died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
Seven.
On the space shuttle Challenger, teacher Christa McAuliffe, and Judith Resnik died in January 1986. In February 2003, Lauren B. Clark and Kalpana Chawla were killed during re-entry of the shuttle Columbia.
The name of the shuttle where the woman astronaut died is the Space Shuttle Challenger. The Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the tragic deaths of all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
Seven died (explosion January 1986.) The last two members of the Challenger crew were not officially Federal government employees.
Christa McAuliffe was the first female teacher selected to be an astronaut. She was chosen as the primary candidate for the NASA Teacher in Space Project in 1985. Unfortunately, she tragically lost her life in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
No, Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-American astronaut working for NASA, died on February 1, 2003 high above the state of Texas, due to the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia during the time of its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. This accident is known today as the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster. Neither Chawla nor any astronaut has ever gone to Mars.