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Originally Posted by Constant Phil
The crew of Soyuz 11 were killed after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A cabin vent valve accidentally opened at service module separation. The recovery team found three crew members dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11
There was also a parachute failure with Soyuz 1 capsule where another russian was killed. |
Yes, I posted that above. We lost 3 at once and also we lost another one because of a parachute system failure. It's not a secret that Soviet Union has lost 4 cosmonauts during the landing. Actually only a parachute system failure was unpreventable. The other 3 guys have died because... they had no hermetic suits. The soviet government thought it's a good way to fit 3 cosmonauts into one landing capsule. Otherwise only 2 would be able to use it. After that incident of course the changes were made, but yes we lost 3 people at once.
Americans lost 18 because their rocket systems made by Nazis suck.