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 joindevon rated 3 weeks ago-
The crew of Alollo 15 left on the Lunar surface a plaque to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who had been killed.
The fourteen astronauts and cosmonauts listed on the memorial are:
- Charles Bassett (died Feb. 1966 in an aircraft accident)
- Pavel Belyayev (Jan. 1970, disease...
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- joindevon rated 3 weeks ago
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The crew of Alollo 15 left on the Lunar surface a plaque to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who had been killed.
The fourteen astronauts and cosmonauts listed on the memorial are:
- Charles Bassett (died Feb. 1966 in an aircraft accident)
- Pavel Belyayev (Jan. 1970, disease)
- Roger Chaffee (Jan. 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
- Georgi Dobrovolsky (Jun. 1971 re-entry pressurization failure)
- Theodore Freeman (Oct. 1964, aircraft accident)
- Yuri Gagarin (Mar. 1968, aircraft accident)
- Edward Givens (Jun. 1967, automobile accident)
- Gus Grissom (Jan. 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
- Vladimir Komarov (Apr. 1967, re-entry parachute failure)
- Viktor Patsayev (Jun. 1971, re-entry pressurization failure)
- Elliot See (Feb. 1966, aircraft accident)
- Vladislaw Volkov (Jun. 1971, re-entry pressurization failure)
- Edward White (Jan. 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
- C.C. Williams (Oct. 1967, aircraft accident)
- unigami rated 8 months ago
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"Fallen Astronaut", by artist Paul Van Hoeydonck is 8.5 cm long and made of tin.
It is the only sculptural object on the moon.
- JohnShepler rated 23 months ago
- The fallen astronaut memorial on the Moon. First time I've heard of this.
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