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.

Vladimir Komarov was the first man to ever die in space in 1967 when he plummeted to Earth at unbelievable speeds - a choice thought to have been made to save his best friend's life.

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.

Komarov knew at least a month before the flight it was a suicide mission. "I'm not going to make it back from this flight," he told the demoted Russayev. Soyuz 1 was going to be launched.

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 ...

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 ...

In the new edition of a book called "Starman" (Bloomsbury 2011) Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony tell the story of the first space fatality the tragic death of Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov in ...

As more information about the death of Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov filters out of Moscow, it becomes increasingly apparent that there were close parallels between the first fatalities in the ...