The plan was to send two spacecraft into orbit. Soyuz 1, containing Komarov, would launch first, and wait for a day for the ...

Soyuz 1's pilot was cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, a Soviet test pilot and engineer who had previous experience in space. His voyage on the mission made him the first Soviet cosmonaut to make a ...

On 24 April 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die in space. The Soviet Union mourned the loss of a hero when it heard the Soyuz 1 mission was a failure.

Half a century ago, on April 23, 1967, the Soviet Union proudly announced a new spacecraft orbiting Earth, piloted by 40-year-old cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, flying solo. The long-expected Soyuz-1 ...

1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when the parachute of his Soyuz 1 craft fails to deploy upon landing. He is the first person to die on a space mission.

Vladimir Komarov was one of them. ... One of the ships, Soyuz 1, would carry one cosmonaut into near-Earth orbit, while a second spacecraft would carry two more cosmonauts.

Gagarin’s friend, Colonel Vladimir Komarov was meant to lead ‘Soyuz-1’ to glory, but failed to escape a tragic end. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union and the U.S. were in a cut-throat space race.

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov flew into orbit aboard the Soyuz 1. His mission was to dock with another Soyuz spacecraft, but one of the two solar panels that supplied energy for the maneuver refused ...

The plan was to send two spacecraft into orbit. Soyuz 1, containing Komarov, would launch first, and wait for a day for the arrival of the unimaginatively named Soyuz 2. The ships would then meet ...