This is the list of human casualties in the history of space exploration.
January 27, 1967 – three astronauts died when a fire engulfed their command module during a ground test at Kennedy Space Centre.
- Gus Grissom
- Edward H. White
- Roger B. Chaffee
April 24, 1967 – one astronaut died when his Soyuz I spacecraft crashed on return to Earth
- Vladimir Komarov
June 29, 1971 – three astronauts died during re-entry of their Soyuz 11 spacecraft. A government investigation said they died 30 minutes before landing because of depressurisation.
- Georgy Dobrovolsky
- Vladislav Volkov
- Viktor Patsayev
January 28, 1986 – seven astronauts died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. McAuliffe was intended to be the first teacher in space.
- Christa McAuliffe
- Francis “Dick” Scobee
- Michael J. Smith
- Ellison S. Onizuka
- Judith A. Resnik
- Ronald E. McNair
- Gregory B. Jarvis.
February 1, 2003 – seven astronauts died when space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames about 203,000 feet over Texas, 16 minutes before it was supposed to touch down in Florida. Ramon was Israel’s first astronaut.
- William McCool
- Rick Husband
- Michael Anderson
- Kalpana Chawla
- David Brown
- Laurel Clark
- Ilan Ramon