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	Space disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Space disasters, either during operations or training, have killed around 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts (5% of all people who have been in space, 2% per flight), and a much larger number of ground crew.
		This is an overview of all acknowledged fatalities and near-fatalities that occurred during manned space missions, accidents during astronaut training and during the testing, assembling or preparing for flight of manned and unmanned spacecraft.
		In-flight near misses have included various reentry mishaps (in particular on Soyuz 5), the sinking of the Mercury 4 capsule, and the Voskhod 2 crew spending a night in dense forest surrounded by wolves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_space_disasters (4655 words)

	Articles - List of space disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Space disasters, either during operations or training, have killed around 20 astronauts and cosmonauts (5% of all people who have been in space), and a much larger number of ground crew.
		But in 2003 it came out that the KGB had found that the official report was false and that the truth was negligence by an airforce colonel on the ground, who gave an out-of-date weather report; the flight needed good weather, but the cloud base was nearly at ground level.
		When Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit a year later, there was no publicity until after he was safely recovered.
	www.bitwindow.com /articles/List_of_space_disasters (4280 words)

	Phantom Cosmonaut
		Personal and official documents, diaries, and contemporary notes from the time were sold at auction and purchased by Western museums and institutes.
		The Soviet Union's greatest secrets - the failed moon landing program, the Nedelin disaster, the horrible radiological and biological warheads developed for their missiles - came spilling out.
		Several cosmonauts who had died in training accidents were indeed identified.
	www.astronautix.com /astrogrp/phaonaut.htm (711 words)

	Spacecrafts launched in 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On 24 October 1960, a major disaster happen at the Baykonur Comodrome, killing more than a hundred of personnel, including one of the most important figures of the Soviet missile and space programs.
		The tragedy was first heard of in the West in the 1970s and since it had happened during a period favorable to launch Mars probes, it was considered a major blow to the Soviet space program.
		The entire incident was kept under tight wraps, and Marshal Nedelin was said to have died in an aircraft accident, a piece of fiction that the Soviets officially maintained until early 1989.
	www.sciencepresse.qc.ca /clafleur/Spacecrafts-1960.html (6213 words)

	⊙ AntiQuark: April 2005
		The Nedelin disaster was the worst space-related disaster of all time.
		The dignitaries were lounging around on the tarmac, "supervising" the workers (which violated every safety code on the Russian books) when one of the engines on the second stage ignited, with predictable results.
		Remarkably, the disaster was was kept secret for 40 years until the 1990's.
	www.antiquark.com /weblog/2005_04_01_antiquark_archive.html (2831 words)

	Tunguska Event Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Star Trek novel Prime Directive depicts the Tunguska incident as the result of benevolent Vulcan interference in human history, in which an anthropological survey ship deflected a meteor (that would otherwise have struck Western Europe and destroyed much of civilization) into a largely uninhabited part of the planet.
		The 1995 Forgotten Futures RPG adventure The Fist of God, by Marcus Rowland, set in the word of Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger stories, assumes a human cause for the disaster.
		The Red Sparowes' 2006 Split EP with Gregor Samsa contained a song named 'I Saw The Sky In The North Open To The Ground And Fire Poured Out', and the record sleeve features other quotations from eyewitnesses to the Tunguska event
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Tunguska_event (3894 words)

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