Re: To eternity and beyond...
At least double may be wrong, but clearly, over thirteen for pilots and crew on orbital missions from the USA alone.
Former Soviet programme, several acknowledged deaths, others rumoured, but it is likely that they are dinsiformation.
They never had a disaster in carrying humans to match Apollo 1 or the two shuttle disasters.
Certainly not only thirteen as you claim on the basis of a quick Google search and a scan of the headlines on the first page of results.
Losses in flight training, playing too hard in the allowed flight time, I don't know, only that Gagarin was the most noteworthy. There were several others.
In testing, who knows?
It looks as if your beardie has been more than a little irresponsible here.
There are a couple of interesting articles out there about safety warnings for Virgin Galactic and Scaled not being too careful and having been warned.
The Reg has become slow, they don't beat mainstream sites for speed on sci. & tech. info too often (at all?) lately, unlike the days where mainstream papers would copy slabs of articles from here.
Maybe they are too busy censoring quite inoccuous posts that say things some trick-cyclist-type posters don't like to hear, my recent experience.