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Date: Apr 23 06:15 2012

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45th Anniversary of the Soyuz 1 Launch in 1967. __________________

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Date: Apr 22 23:18 2011

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Soyuz 1 (Russian: Union 1) was a manned spaceflight of the Soviet space program. Launched into orbit on April 23, 1967 carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the first flight of the Soyuz spacecraft. Read more __________________

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Date: Mar 21 12:37 2011

Vladimir Komarov

Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'

So there's a cosmonaut up in space, circling the globe, convinced he will never make it back to Earth; he's on the phone with Alexsei Kosygin - then a high official of the Soviet Union - who is crying because he, too, thinks the cosmonaut will die.
The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes - though no one knows this - won't work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, "cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship."
This extraordinarily intimate account of the 1967 death of a Russian cosmonaut appears in a new book, Starman, by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, to be published next month
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Date: Apr 23 14:45 2010

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On this day in 1967 the Soyuz 1 was launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov. The cosmonaut was to die in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. Read more __________________

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