How many astronauts died during the various spacecraft landings?
Four. Stewart, Skipper, Jones, and Martinez. Stewart, the first representation of an American female astronaut from “Planet of the Apes”, died when her suspended animation chamber malfunctioned. She was apparently dead for 6 months subjective time (or enough objective time (a few thousand years) to completely mummify her remains…) before the first ANSA spacecraft touched down. Landon, Dodge, and Taylor didn’t discover her body until they themselves awoke. Many fans question the design of the ship life support systems, often asking where the life support indicators or warning symbols for life signs were? Why the computers didn’t wake Stewart up or notify the others of the danger in time so that they could help her is certainly open for discussion. Her body is not recovered and sinks with the ship, still resting in her suspended animation chamber. You can count this death either way you want to, either you believe she died in space, or you believe she is the first of the astronauts to
