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That 19 is a rather narrow list. It excludes the Apollo 1 mission where astronauts died in the spaceship during a rehearsal etc. In total 11 died during training including a cosmonaut in 1993 and a Spaceship 2 test pilot in 2014. “As of 2024, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.”

The shuttle also carried over half of all astronauts (355) on orbital missions, so if you’re excluding the shuttle it’s not that much safer.

Soyuz MS is a refined design, but Soyusz 11 killed 3 people and Soyuz 1 killed 1. Calling it a different design isn’t unreasonable but by that token it would be limited to 22 successful crewed missions and 1 in progress.




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