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False. The Russians have lost several cosmonauts while in orbit, and the USA has had its own fatalities. The Apollo 1 crew members were killed in an on-the-ground test of the space capsule, when a fire started in the pure oxygen atmosphere of the space capsule. The seven astronauts aboard Challenger were killed when one of the solid rocket boosters exploded during a launch, and the seven-member crew of the space shuttle Columbia were killed when the shuttle went out of control and broke up during re-entry. Several astronauts have been killed in more routine aircraft accidents.

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