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 ...

Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first human in space on April 12, ... 1964, was the first spacecraft to carry a multi-person crew to space, sending Vladimir Komarov, ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.