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    Fallen Astronaut is a 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) aluminum sculpture created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck. It is a stylized figure of an astronaut in a spacesuit...
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    An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον (astron), meaning 'star', and ναύτης (nautes), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed...
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    the 2015 ABC TV series The Astronaut Wives Club. In 2018, he was portrayed by Jason Clarke in First Man. Fallen Astronaut List of spaceflight-related...
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    non-fatal training accidents Criticism of the Space Shuttle program Fallen Astronaut International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety Lost...
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    NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as...
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    Scott in memory of 14 deceased NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, along with a small sculpture entitled Fallen Astronaut, on 1 August 1971. This plaque and...
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    Elliot See (category NASA Astronaut Group 2)
    Commemorating Fallen Astronauts". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved October 9, 2016. "The Astronauts Memorial Foundation Space Mirror Memorial". The Astronauts Memorial...
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    Apollo 1 (category Ed White (astronaut))
    the Moon a tiny memorial statue, Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque containing the names of the Apollo 1 astronauts, among others including Soviet cosmonauts...
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    small aluminum statuette called Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing the names of 14 known American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died...
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    (1927–1941) Christ the Redeemer (1927–1931) The Motherland Calls (1967) Fallen Astronaut (1971) Mother Ukraine (1981) Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue (2008)...
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    Gus Grissom (category United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees)
    launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom was also a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA. As a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps,...
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    Charles Bassett (category United States Air Force astronauts)
    He is memorialized on the Space Mirror Memorial; The Astronaut Monument; and the Fallen Astronaut memorial plaque, which was placed on the Moon during...
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  • Scott placed a small metal statue on the Moon, named Fallen Astronaut to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who had died in the advancement of space...
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    Additionally, the fallen statue would have blocked the harbour, and since the ancient Rhodians did not have the ability to remove the fallen statue from the...
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    Roger B. Chaffee (category United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees)
    members, and astronaut Jack Lousma (a Grand Rapids native) were present for the event. Fallen Astronaut List of Eagle Scouts The Astronaut Monument List...
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    The Space Mirror Memorial, which forms part of the larger Astronauts Memorial, is a National Memorial on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Space Center...
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    (1927–1941) Christ the Redeemer (1927–1931) The Motherland Calls (1967) Fallen Astronaut (1971) Mother Ukraine (1981) Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue (2008)...
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    and Patsaev. The names of the three cosmonauts are included on the Fallen Astronaut commemorative plaque placed on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission...
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    porcelain group Porcelain painter, Royal Copenhagen Hummel figurine Fallen Astronaut, Moon A Musketeer figurine Mammy figurines in the collection of the...
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  • National Astronaut Day is an American commemorative day held on May 5 since 2017. It commemorates the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5...
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    (1927–1941) Christ the Redeemer (1927–1931) The Motherland Calls (1967) Fallen Astronaut (1971) Mother Ukraine (1981) Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue (2008)...
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    test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to...
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    Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature...
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    Theodore Freeman (category United States Air Force astronauts)
    U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash...
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    (1927–1941) Christ the Redeemer (1927–1931) The Motherland Calls (1967) Fallen Astronaut (1971) Mother Ukraine (1981) Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue (2008)...
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    (1927–1941) Christ the Redeemer (1927–1931) The Motherland Calls (1967) Fallen Astronaut (1971) Mother Ukraine (1981) Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue (2008)...
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    The Apollo 15 postal covers incident, a 1972 NASA scandal, involved the astronauts of Apollo 15, who carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space...
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  • Apollo 13 Flight Journal lists the timestamps and dialogue between the astronauts and Mission Control. 055:55:19 Swigert: Okay, Houston ... 055:55:19 Lovell:...
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    Clifton Williams (category United States Marine Corps astronauts)
    Williams was played by Jim Leavy. Fallen Astronaut List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents The Astronaut Monument "Space pilot killed". Tuscaloosa...
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    Clifton C. Williams whom he replaced, the Bible left by David Scott, the Fallen Astronaut statuette and memorial plaque placed by the crew of Apollo 15, the...
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