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. Some say Komarov ...

Soyuz 1, carrying Vladimir Komarov, would launch first and wait for Soyuz 2 to arrive the following day. The two spacecraft were intended to rendezvous, and then cosmonauts from Soyuz 2 would ...

The size of a crack in the intermediate chamber of the Russian Zvezda module aboard the International Space Station (ISS) remains unchanged, cosmonaut ... Flight Director Vladimir Solovyov said ...