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Well, Duh, Reentries Are HOT
3 out of the 4 space flight fatalities in the last 35 years have occurred during
reentry. The Soyez 1 reentry accident of 1967 and Soyez 11 reentry claimed a total
of 4 cosmonauts. We lost the Columbia space shuttle during reentry in February of
this year. The only fatal launch accident was the Challenger shuttle in 1986. The
Apollo 1 tragedy in 1967 technically was not a flight accident because the fire
occurred during a practice run while still on the launch pad.
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