Back in 1967, the Soviet Union celebrated its 50th anniversary. As well as events on the ground, part of these celebrations involved a stunt to be carried out in space, which ultimately ended in ...

A SELFLESS Soviet cosmonaut’s life ended in disaster after he fell from space during a chilling “suicide mission”. Vladimir Komarov was the first man to ever die in space in 1967 … ...

The Russians posthumously awarded Komarov his second Gold Star and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, gave him a fitting funeral in Red Square, buried his ashes in the Kremlin wall and planned ...

Although the Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation, has never sent an astronaut to the Moon, they still helped pave the way for human space exploration.

Komarov may have had a premonition of his fate. Shortly before the veteran cosmonaut entered the spacecraft, Stevens says, he handed Soviet Reporter Sergei Borzenko the book he had been reading ...

Soviet premier Alexey Kosygin called on a video phone to tell Komarov he was a hero. Komarov's wife was put on the line to talk about how to tell their children. Kosygin wept.

Lying just 25 miles from the border with Russia, Kharkiv was Ukraine’s most vulnerable city. As a prelude to assaulting the city, the Russians targeted its air-defenses.

According to reports, Komarov was in conversation with Alexei Kosygin, a high ranking Soviet statesman. The official transcript of Komarov’s conversation from the Russian State Archive records ...

It's been 55 years since cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov became infamously known as 'the man who fell from space', after a Soyuz-1 spaceflight of the Soviet space programme crashed. On ...