Well, Duh, Reentries Are HOT
3 out of the 4 space flight
fatalities in the last 35 years have occurred during reentry. The Soyez 1 reentry
accident of 1967 and Soyez 11 reentry claimed a total of 4 cosmonauts. We lost the
Columbia space shuttle during reentry in February of this year. The only fatal launch
accident was the Challenger shuttle in 1986. The Apollo 1 tragedy in 1967 technically
was not a flight accident because the fire occurred during a practice run while
still on the launch pad.
|