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.

Valentina Komarov kneels to kiss a photo of her husband, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the first man to die on a space flight on April 23, 1967.

Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. The pilot was Vladimir Komarov, a veteran of the Voskhod 1 space mission in 1964, a former ...

Space is a dangerous place and if you want to go there you have to take some risks, but given the possibility of death, what ...

Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov did not die in the way the new book "Starman" featured by NPR describes. Life's Little Mysteries asks historians what really happened.

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. Komarov was an air force ...

Forty-five years ago today, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died when the parachutes on his Soyuz 1 space capsule failed to deploy properly after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. The capsule ...

Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura," the book quotes him saying, "and he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.

Vladimir Komarov, often referred to as ‘the man who fell from space’ died after the Soyuz 1 spacecraft he was aboard crashed into earth at a speed of 140 kmph.

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 ...