- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The presumed
deaths of the seven members of space shuttle Columbia's crew on Saturday
brings the total of those killed during NASA's 42 years of human space
missions to 17.
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- Columbia's crew included commander Rick Husband, 45,
of Amarillo, Texas; pilot William McCool, 41, of San Diego, Calif.; mission
specialist Michael Anderson, 43, of Spokane, Wash.; mission specialist
Kalpana Chawla, born in Karnal India, who earned her Ph.D. from the University
of Colorado; mission specialist David Brown, 43, of Arlington, Va.; mission
specialist Laurel Clark, 41, of Racine, Wis.; and payload specialist Ilan
Ramon, 48, the first astronaut from Israel.
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- Others to die during space missions included the crew
of the first Apollo space capsule, which caught fire during tests on its
Kennedy Space Center launch pad on Jan. 27, 1967. Lost were astronauts
Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
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- On Jan. 28, 1986, shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds
after liftoff, killing its crew of seven: commander Francis Scobee, and
crew members Michael Smith, Judith Resnick, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka,
Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, a teacher chosen to be the first
of her profession to go into space.
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