| Deceased Astronauts/Cosmonauts | ||||||||
| Sadly, there are a few astronauts and cosmonauts who have died; this can make their autograph more difficult to obtain. A few of them died while preforming their duties as astronauts and cosmonauts which can make those autographs even rarer (those are the crews of Apollo 1, Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, STS-51-L, and STS-107). Autographs of deceased astronauts and cosmonauts must be purchased from a reputable dealer. A tradition developed by the Russian Cosmonauts since the beginning of their space program says that cosmonauts are not allowed to sign autographs until after they have flown in space. This tradition has caused a serious problem for those autograph collectors who want to have a signature of every person who has ever flown in space. Four Russian cosmonauts have been killed during while on a space flight, and two of those men were rookie cosmonauts. The names of those two men are Georgi Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev, both crewmembers of the fatal Soyuz 11 mission. Since they died on their first spaceflight their autographs are extremely rare (almost non-existent) and when they are seen can sell for thousands of dollars. Beware, fake autographs of these men are know to exist. *The Apollo 1 mission never made it into space, the crew died when the capsule caught fire about 3 weeks prior to launch. |
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| Michael P. Anderson (STS-89, STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 Yuri P. Artyukhin (Soyuz 14) Died: 8/4/1998 Charles A. Bassett, II () Died: 2/28/1966 Pavel I. Belyayev (Voskhod 2) Died: 1/10/1970 Georgi T. Beregovoi (Soyuz 3) Died: 6/30/1995 David M. Brown (STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 Manley Lanier Carter, Jr. (STS-33) Died: 4/5/1991 Roger B. Chaffee (Apollo 1*) Died: 1/27/1967 Kalpana Chawla (STS-87, STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 Laurel B. Clark (STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (Gemini-V, Gemini-XI, Apollo 12, Skylab 2) Died: 7/8/1999 Lev S. [Demin or Dyomin] (Soyuz 15) Died: 12/18/1998 Georgi T. Dobrovolsky (Soyuz 11) Died: 6/29/1971 Donn F. Eisele (Apollo 7) Died: 12/2/1987 Ronald E. Evans (Apollo 17) Died: 4/6/1990 Theodore C. Freeman () Died: 10/31/1964 Yuri A. Gagarin (Vostok 1) Died: 3/27/1968 Edward G. Givens () Died: 6/6/1967 S. David Griggs (STS-51-D) Died: 6/17/1989 Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (MR-4, Gemini-3, Apollo 1*) Died: 1/27/1967 Karl G. Henize (STS-51-F) Died: 10/5/1993 Rick D. Husband (STS-96, STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 James B. Irwin (Apollo 15) Died: 8/8/1991 Yevgeni V. Khrunov (Soyuz 5) Died: 5/19/2000 Vladimir M. Komarov (Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1) Died: 4/24/1967 Vasili G. Lazarev (Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18-1) Died: 12/31/1990 Anatoli S. Levchenko (Soyuz TM-4) Died: 8/6/1988 Oleg G. Makarov (Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18-1, Soyuz 27, Soyuz T-3) Died: 5/28/03 Yuri V. Malyshev (Soyuz T-2, Soyuz T-11) Died: 11/8/1999 William C. McCool (STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 Ronald E. McNair (STS-41-B, STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 Andrian G. Nikolayev (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9) Died: 7/3/2004 Ellison S. Onizuka (STS-51-C, STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 Robert F. Overmyer (STS-5, STS-51-B) Died: 3/22/1996 Viktor I. Patsayev (Soyuz 11) Died: 6/29/1971 Judith A. Resnik (STS-41-D, STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 Patricia C. Hilliard Robinson () Died: 5/24/2001 Stuart A. Roosa (Apollo 14) Died: 12/12/1994 Nikolai N. Rukavishnikov (Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, Soyuz 33) Died: 10/18/2002 Francis R. (Dick) Scobee (STS-41-C, STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 Elliott M. See, Jr. () Died: 2/28/1966 Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (MR-3, Apollo 14) Died: 7/21/1998 Georgi S. Shonin (Soyuz 6) Died: 4/7/1997 Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (ASTP) Died: 6/13/1993 Michael J. Smith (STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 John L. Swigert, Jr. (Apollo 13) Died: 12/27/1982 Stephen D. Thorne () Died: 5/24/1986 Gherman S. Titov (Vostok 2) Died: 9/20/2000 Vladimir V. Vasyutin (Soyuz T-14) Died: 7/19/2002 Charles Lacy Veach (STS-39, STS-52) Died: 10/3/1995 Vladislav N. Volkov (Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11) Died: 6/29/1971 David M. Walker (STS-51-A, STS-30, STS-53, STS-69) Died: 4/23/2001 Edward H. White, II (Gemini-IV, Apollo 1*) Died: 1/27/1967 Clifton C. Williams, Jr. () Died: 10/5/1967 Boris B. Yegorov (Voskhod 1) Died: 9/12/1994 Space Shuttle Payload Specialists Reinhard Furrer (STS-61-A) Died: 9/9/1995 Gregory B. Jarvis (STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 S. Christa McAuliffe (STS-51-L) Died: 1/28/1986 Ilan Ramon (STS-107) Died: 2/1/2003 |
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