List of deceased space travelers

List of deceased space travelers is list of people who have gone into space (usually orbit) including the various classifications of astronauts, cosmonauts, spaceflight participants, etc. Sometimes people are qualified as an astronaut but do not actually go into space such as in the case of of the Apollo 1 astronaut Chaffee who had not been in space
This includes the 24 people who have flown to the Moon including those that walked on it. Also, other space travelers but not those certified but unflown for space travel
Timeline
most recent at top by date
2010s
*Eugene Cernan died in a hospital in Houston on January 16, 2017, at the age of 82.
**Spaceflights: Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17
*Igor Volk (Died January 2016)
*Piers Sellers (Died December 2016)
*John Glenn (Died December 2016)
*Donald E. Williams (Died February 2016)
*Edgar Mitchell died under hospice care in West Palm Beach, Florida, on February 4, 2016, at the age of 85.
**Spaceflight: Apollo 14
*Aleksei Gubarev (Died February 2015)
*Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr. died on March 10, 2014.
*Boris Morukov (Died January 2015)
*Anatoly Berezovoy (Died Sep 2014)
*Steven R. Nagel died from advanced melanoma on August 21, 2014 at the age of 67.
*Wubbo Ockels died on 18 May 2014 from cancer.
*William R. Pogue (Died March 2014)
*Dale Gardner (Died February 2014)
*Valeri Kubasov (Died February 2014)
*Aleksandr Serebrov (Died November 2013)
*Scott Carpenter (Died October 2013)
*C. Gordon Fullerton died on August 21, 2013, aged 76.
*Neil Armstrong on August 25, 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio attempted to recover from a surgery.
**Spaceflights: Gemini 8, Apollo 11
*Sally Ride Died July 23, 2012
*Alan G. Poindexter on July 1, 2012, Poindexter died due to injuries he received from a personal watercraft accident at age 51.
*Janice E. Voss (Died February 2012)
*Valery Rozhdestvensky (Died August 2011)
*John M. Lounge (Died March 2011)
*William B. Lenoir (Died August 2010)
*Leonid Kizim (Died June 2010)
**Spaceflights Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10, Soyuz T-15
*Vitaly Sevastyanov (April 2010)
2000s
*Konstantin Feoktistov (Died Nov 2009)
*Pavel Popovich (Died September 2009)
*Yury Glazkov (Died December 2008)
*Ronald A. Parise (Died May 2008)
*G. David Low (Died March 2008)
*Wally Schirra (Died 2007)
*Charles E. Brady (Died 2006)
*Gennadi Sarafanov (Died 2005)
*Gennadi Strekalov (Died Dec 2004)
*Gordon Cooper (Died October 2004)
*Andriyan Nikolayev (Died July 2004)
*Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov Died 2003
*Died on February 1, 2003 in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107.
** David M. Brown
**Rick Husband
**Laurel Clark
**Kalpana Chawla
**Michael P. Anderson
**William C. McCool
**Ilan Ramon
*Nikolay Rukavishnikov (Died October 2012)
*Vladimir Vasyutin (Died July 2012)
*David M. Walker died on April 23, 2001 (cancer).
*Gherman Titov (Died Sep 2000)
*Yevgeny Khrunov (Died May 2000)
1990s
*Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev (Died Nov 1999)
*Pete Conrad died on July 8, 1999, from internal injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; died in a hospital in Ojai, California.
**Spaceflights: Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2
*Lev Dyomin (Died Dec 1998)
*Yury Artyukhin died August 4, 1998.
*Alan Shepard on July 21, 1998 ( complications from leukemia).
**Spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14
*Georgy Shonin (Died April 1997)
*Robert F. Overmyer (Died March 1996)
*Charles L. Veach (Died October 1995)
*Reinhard Furrer died 9 September 1995 at the age of 54 in a plane crash.
*Boris Yegorov (Sept 1994)
*Karl Gordon Henize died October 5, 1993 on an expedition to Mount Everest studying the effects of radiation from space. (age 66)
*Deke Slayton (1993)
*James Irwin died on August 8, 1991.
*Sonny Carter died April 5, 1991.
*Vasily Lazarev (Died Dec 1990)
*Ronald Evans died April 6, 1990 from a heart attack.
1980s
*S. David Griggs (d 1989)
*Anatoli Levchenko (d 1988)
*Donn F. Eisele (d 1987)
*Died on January 28, 1986 in Challenger Disaster of STS-51-L
** Dick Scobee (Cmdr)
** Judith Resnik
** Ellison Onizuka
** Ronald McNair
**Note died but because it was their first mission, did not fly into space: Christa McAuliffe, Michael J. Smith, Gregory Jarvis)
*Jack Swigert on December 27, 1982 age 51.
1970s
*Vladislav Volkov (Died Jun 30, 1971 Soyuz 11 disaster)
*Georgy Dobrovolsky (Died Jun 30, 1971 Soyuz 11 disaster)
*Viktor Patsayev (Died Jun 30, 1971 Soyuz 11 disaster)
*Pavel Belyayev (Jan 1970)
1960s
*Yuri Gagarin died March 27, 1968.
*Vladimir Komarov (Died 1967)
*Edward Higgins White died January 27, 1967 in the Apollo 1 fire.
*Gus Grissom died January 27, 1967 in the Apollo 1 fire.

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