Trained as a Soviet Air Force pilot from the age of 15 and a 1959 graduate of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, Vladimir Komarov piloted Voshkod 1 in 1964 – the first multi-human-passenger space mission. On April 23, 1967, he took off for his second mission, a solo flight in Soyuz 1. The capsule didContinue reading “April 23, 1967: Soyuz 1 suffers a fatal crash”
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