Lunar craters named for space explorers
- Lunar craters named for space explorers
Fourteen craters on the Moon have been named after astronauts and cosmonauts who have died as part of a space mission. Most craters are on the far side of the moon.
Four craters were named after the Apollo 1 astronauts and a Soviet cosmonaut of the Soyuz 1 mission, all four of whom died in 1967:
*Virgil I. Grissom
*Edward H. White
*Roger B. Chaffee
*Vladimir Komarov
Subsequently, three craters were named after the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts, who died June 30 1971:
* Vladislav Volkov
* Georgi Dobrovolski
* Viktor Patsayev
Since then, seven craters have been named after the Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts who died on the January 28, 1986 launch of that orbiter.
* Dick Scobee
* Gregory Jarvis
* Ronald McNair
* Ellison Onizuka
* Judith Resnik
* Michael J. Smith
* Christa McAuliffe
The astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster are memorialized in the Columbia Hills on the planet Mars, with names expected to be approved by the IAU.
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