[FreedomCalls]

If that is your yardstick, then the Apollo program had zero fatalities.

That is exactly what I originally said. U.S. fatalities - 14, Russian - 4. I did not include Apollo 1 deaths. Only when goaded into comparing equal vehicles did I include them because Apollo 1 as a vehicle killed 3 people. The Apollo program itself has no actual space fatalities.

[DeepDish]

Thank you for the clarification. I have no axe to grind with the Soviet space program, they have shown the value of keeping a reliable capsule on hand, without which the ISS would go the way of Skylab. They have made immense contributions to the study of duration and the physical problems encountered in space.