It will be the second launch of the Progress MS spacecraft this year, and the third rocket launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome ...

Vladimir Komarov wasn't to know that the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967 would be his last. The Soviet cosmonaut had successfully made it to space and back three years earlier, and was backed again to ...

When a brand-new spacecraft called Soyuz 1 was launched into orbit last week carrying veteran Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, 40, it seemed certain that the first manned Soviet flight since March 1965 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their seven-month research assignment. According to ...

Vladimir Komarov was to go on Soyuz 1 with Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) as his backup. However, almost none of this went to plan, as Robert Krulwich recounts via NPR.

The burning remains of the Soviet Soyuz 1 spacecraft when it crashed to Earth after its parachute failed to open, on April 23, 1967, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov instantly.

Back in 1967 Soviet Union, the original plan involved launching two spacecraft, Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 2, into orbit. Soyuz 1, carrying Vladimir Komarov, would launch first and wait for Soyuz 2 to ...

On April 23, 1967, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 1, a mission intended to showcase advancements in spaceflight. Piloted by cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the spacecraft encountered severe issues ...

April 1967 – Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed while returning to the ground from a successful Soyuz 1 orbit of Earth when the main parachute fails to open.