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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kəmɐˈrof]; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member.
On 26 April 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, who had died in the crash of his Soyuz 1 space capsule, [38] was given a state funeral in Moscow, and his ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Komarov was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin (for the second time) and the order of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) was a crewed spaceflight of the Soviet space program.Launched into orbit on 23 April 1967 carrying cosmonaut colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the first crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft.
Soyuz 1 was plagued with technical issues, and cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when the spacecraft crashed during its return to Earth. This was the first in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight. The next crewed version of the Soyuz was the Soyuz 7K-OKS.
In a small park on the side of the road is a memorial monument: a black column with a bust of Komarov at the top. [11] [12] [13] 15 November 1967: Control failure X-15 Flight 3-65-97 Michael J. Adams: During X-15 Flight 191, Adams' seventh flight, the plane had an electrical problem followed by control problems at the apogee of its flight. The ...
On April 24, the single pilot of Soyuz 1, Vladimir Komarov, was killed in a crash when his landing parachutes tangled, after a mission cut short by electrical and control system problems. Both accidents were determined to be caused by design defects in the spacecraft, which were corrected before crewed flights resumed.
Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov was a satellite tracking ship of the Soviet Union. It was named after Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov , the cosmonaut who died on Soyuz 1 . It was built as an ordinary cargo ship in 1966 and converted in Leningrad in 1967.
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