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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...
...first announced fatality in space flight of either the United States or the Soviet Union came after the Soyuz had completed more than 24 hours in orbit on its maiden voyage. It was the first Soviet space flight in 25 months...
...second time. Russia's remarkable distance machine Vladimir Kuts, a 29-year-old navy lieutenant or an army captain-depending on which Russian a foreigner talks to-gave the crowd a great display of distance running, and the band an excuse to play Soyuz Nerushimy (Union Indissoluble). After outrunning and outsmarting Britain's Gordon Pirie in a 10,000-meter demonstration of brilliantly employed endurance. Kuts came back five days later to do it all over again in the equally demanding 5,000-meter race...