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== Deaths ==
{{Main list|List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents#Astronaut fatalities}}

[[File:amf space mirror.jpg|thumb|Space Mirror Memorial]]

{{As of|2020}}, eighteen astronauts (fourteen men and four women) have died during four space flights. By nationality, thirteen were American, four were Russian ([[Soviet Union]]), and one was Israeli.

{{As of|2020}}, eleven people (all men) have died training for spaceflight: eight Americans and three Russians. Six of these were in crashes of training jet aircraft, one drowned during water recovery training, and four were due to fires in pure oxygen environments.

Astronaut [[David Scott]] left a memorial consisting of a statuette titled ''[[Fallen Astronaut]]'' on the surface of the Moon during his 1971 [[Apollo 15]] mission, along with a list of the names of eight of the astronauts and six cosmonauts known at the time to have died in service.<ref>{{cite web |title = Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut |url = http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19860035000 |website = airandspace.si.edu |publisher = [[Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]] |access-date = 17 July 2014 |archive-date = 28 July 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140728032237/http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19860035000 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

The [[Space Mirror Memorial]], which stands on the grounds of the [[Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex]], is maintained by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation and commemorates the lives of the men and women who have died during spaceflight and during training in the space programs of the United States. In addition to twenty NASA career astronauts, the memorial includes the names of an [[X-15]] test pilot, a [[U.S. Air Force]] officer who died while training for a then-classified military space program, and a civilian [[spaceflight participant]].