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Originally Posted by sammyg2 View Post
To keep it in perspective we lost 11 astronauts in the challenger and columbia accidents combined.
It sure looks like the average lifespan on an astronaut is not that long.


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And 3 dead in Apollo 1

There have also been a few dead in training accidents, plane crashes.
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