Accidents

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Accidents in space: In the past century, humans have made great strides in the field of space exploration. But success has come at the cost of many brave astronauts’ lives, as well as ground crew. Being in space can be as dangerous as it is exciting. The challenger was to be the first mission that would carry a teacher into space. Sharon Christy McAuliffe was selected from 11,006 people who had applied to NASA for the teacher in space program (TISP) Sadly it was just about 73 seconds after it was launched the challenger exploded killing the entire crew of 7. First failures: One of the first space missions that ended in an accident involved the Apollo/ Saturn 204, later it was known as Apollo 1. The crew was on the training exercise when a fire broke out killing all three. The first in-flight accident was that left rostrum space craft soy us, during the reentry the capsules parachuted failed to open and it crashed in a field killing its own single cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarow.