Fallen Astronauts Memorial
	03.23.1961	TRAINING	While training in a low-pressure chamber, Valentin Bondarenko dropped an alcohol-soaked cloth onto an electric surface. Fire engulfed the pure oxygen environment, and Bondarenko died of burns in the hospital.
	10.31.1964	TRAINING	Theodore Freeman was killed when a bird struck his supersonic T-38 jet trainer, causing an engine flame-out.  Freeman ejected from the craft, but was too low to the ground for his parachute to open.
	02.28.1966	TRAINING	Original Gemini 9 crew, Elliot See and Charles Bassett, were killed while attempting to land their T-38 in bad weather. See misjudged approach and crashed into the McDonnell aircraft factory.
	01.27.1967	TRAINING	An electrical fault sparked a blaze inside the Apollo 1 Capsule on a Kennedy Space Center launchpad, causing the deaths of the crew, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White II and Roger Chaffee.
	04.24.1967	FLIGHT	Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died aboard Soyuz 1 when his parachute failed to deploy upon return to the Earth.
	10.05.1967	TRAINING	Clifton 'C.C.' Williams died after a mechanical failure caused the controls of his T-38 supersonic jet trainer to be unresponsive.
	03.27.1968	TRAINING	Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space on Vostok 1 in 1961, died when his MiG-15 jet trainer crashed near Chkalovsky Air Base, Kirzhach, while he prepared for the Soyuz 3 mission.
	06.30.1971	IN SPACE	Soyuz 11 Crew Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov, died after undocking from space station Salyut 1 when a valve leak depressurized their capsule.  Their deaths were discovered by the ground team after a normal landing.
	01.28.1986	FLIGHT	Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart in mid-air 73 seconds after launch, resulting in the deaths of the entire crew: Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Michael J. Smith, and Dick Scobee.
	02.01.2003	FLIGHT	Space Shuttle Columbia was lost upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere, resulting in the deaths of the entire crew: Rick D. Husband, William McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark, and Ilan Ramon were killed.