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...months, Moscow had been hinting at new space spectaculars to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. 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 was aimed at overtaking and even surpassing the faltering U.S. Apollo program. Barely 24 hours later, Komarov was dead, killed in a crash landing that may ground the Russian man-in-space program for months...
There was good reason to believe that Komarov's ill-fated flight had been planned as Phase 1 of a highly ambitious mission. Unofficial reports from Moscow had indicated that Soyuz would be joined in orbit by another spacecraft carrying several men and that the two ships would attempt to rendezvous, dock, exchange crews and set up an orbiting space station. There was speculation that the second ship had a restartable engine that would push the joined ships as far out as 50,000 miles-a first step toward a flight later this year in which a manned Russian...
MOSCOW, April 24--Parachute straps of Soyuz 1 fouled Monday in landing preparations to earth, killing Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the government announced...
...photograph of hidden side of the moon, Lunik III, launched Oct. 18, 1959. > First man in space, Yuri Gagarin,. April 12, 1961. > First double launching, Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, Aug. 11, Aug. 12, 1962. > First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, June 16, 1963. > First three-man satellite, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov...
...Russian political propaganda and agitation, Charles Darwin is the most quoted of English scientists, because his Origin of Species is considered a refutation of the supernatural. Toward the end of Komarov's speech, he reviewed British science in two paragraphs, most of which was devoted to the great work done by Darwin. American science was covered in one paragraph, which mentioned Benjamin Franklin...