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  Vladimir Komarov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
An American NSA listening post in Istanbul noted Komarov's reply was inaudible [1], though persistent rumors stated that Komarov died cursing the spacecraft designers and flight controllers.
Vladimir Komarov went on to be awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin; each one twice.
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 Komarov
Komarov was a fighter pilot before his first space flight.
Komarov's last flight was on Soyuz 1, launched on 23 April 1967.
Komarov was the first spaceman to die on a space mission.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Soyuz_1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He attempted to "bump" Komarov from the mission, knowing that the Soviet leadership would not risk a national hero on the flight.
According to some reports, Komarov cursed the engineers and flight staff as he descended.
Komarov was given a state funeral, and is buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis at Red Square, Moscow.
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 Vladimir Komarov - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 April 24, 1967) was a Soviet air force officer and cosmonaut.
On his second flight, Soyuz 1, he was killed during reentry, when the spacecraft crashed due to failure of the parachute.
An American NSA listening post in Istanbul noted Komarov's reply was inaudible [1] (http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/Soyanaly.htm#NSA%20intercepts%20from), though persistent rumors stated that Komarov died cursing the spacecraft designers and flight controllers.
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 Encyclopedia: Vladimir-Komarov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 –; April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
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An American NSA listening post in Istanbul noted Komarov's reply was inaudible [1] (http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/Soyanaly.htm#NSA%20intercepts%20from), though persistent rumors stated that Komarov died cursing the spacecraft designers and flight controllers.
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 Komarov
Komarov admits telling the world press that the Soviet Union will, at the scheduled time, fly an automated spacecraft around the moon and return it to earth, to be followed by a dog flight, then a manned circumlunar flight.
Komarov, Bykovsky, Khrunov, and Yeliseyev are assigned to Soyuz s/n 3 and 4; Gagarin, Nikolayev, Gorbatko, and Kubasov to Soyuz s/n 5 and 6, with Beregovoi, Shatalov, Volkov, and Makarov trained as back-ups.
Komarov's ashes are interred in the wall of the Kremlin.
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 Crash of Soyuz 1. Cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov is killed at age 40. ...
Cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov is killed at age 40.
On orbit 13 Komarov was requested to orient the spacecraft using the ion sensors and manually.
Komarov was to orient the spacecraft manually on the dayside, spin up the gyro platform, and then use this to orient on the night side for retrofire.
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 Vladimir Komarov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vladimir Komarov went on to be awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about Hero of the Soviet Union) Hero of the Soviet Union and the (Click link for more info and facts about Order of Lenin) Order of Lenin; each one twice.
The (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid 1836 Komarov, discovered in 1971 is named in his honour.
Among others the Vladimir M. Komarov Astronautical Rocketry Club (ARK) in (The capital of Slovenia) Ljubljana also bears his name from 1969.
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He was originally selected to command the Soyuz 2 mission, but following the accident that killed Vladimir Komarov, that mission was launched without a crew.
Soyuz 2 was an unpiloted spacecraft in the Soyuz family intended to perform a docking manoeuvre with Soyuz 3.
Vladimir Komarov Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 – April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
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 Knowledge King - List of Russians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lev Mikhailovich Dovator (1903 - 1941), WWII general and Hero of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin, (1870 - 1924), Bolshevik party leader and the first Soviet head of state
Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (1863 - 1926), physicist and mathematician
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 Read about Vladimir Komarov at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Vladimir Komarov and learn about Vladimir Komarov ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16,
An American NSA listening post in Istanbul noted Komarov's reply was inaudible
1836 Komarov, discovered in 1971 is named in his honour.
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 Vladimir Komarov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov ((A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 April 24, 1967) was a (An elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)) Soviet (A person trained to travel in a spacecraft) cosmonaut.
He was the first human to die during a space mission, on (Click link for more info and facts about Soyuz 1) Soyuz 1.
On his second flight, (Click link for more info and facts about Soyuz 1) Soyuz 1, he was killed during a return, when the spacecraft crashed due to failure of the (Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall) parachute.
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 Komarov
The crew were Col. Vladimir Komarov, pilot; Konstantin Feoktistov, scientist; and Boris Yegorov, physician.
This failed because of interference of the reaction control system exhaust with the ion flow sensors that were one of the Soyuz' main methods of orientation.
Komarov released the reserve chute, but it became tangled with the drag chute.
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 Vladimir Komarov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, in cirillico Владимир Михайлович Комаров, (16 marzo 1927 - 24 aprile 1967) è il primo cosmonauta sovietico ad avere perso la vita in una missione spaziale a bordo del Soyuz 1.
Nato a Mosca, ai tempi della Unione Sovietica, Komarov fu selezionato per diventare cosmonauta nel 1960.
Durante la sua seconda missione Komarov perse la vita a causa di un guasto al paracaduta di frenata della navicella spaziale.
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov will go down in the annals of history as the first man to die in a space program.
Komarov was the pilot of the first of a new generation of spacecraft, the Soyuz series.
Soyuz 1 was aloft for just over 30 hours, and when it returned to earth, the drag parachutes became tangled and Komarov died on impact.
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 The Partnership - ch3-7
Soviet space pioneers Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov, on the eve of the latter's ill-fated flight aboard Soyuz 1 (Soviet Academy of Sciences photo).
Komarov experienced difficulty in bringing his ship under control and found that he was expending far more control fuel than was desirable.
NASA Administrator Webb, in voicing his regret at the Soviet loss, suggested that Komarov's death and those of the Apollo astronauts indicated the need for closer cooperation between the two space programs.
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 Space Disasters Since Exploration Began
January 1967 -- Three U.S. astronauts -- Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White -- die in a "flash fire" aboard Apollo 1 during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.
April 1967 -- Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov is first man to die in a space mission when a parachute on his spaceship fails on re-entry and the ship crashes to Earth.
June 1971 -- Three Soviet cosmonauts die during re-entry after 24 days in an orbiting space laboratory, a record endurance flight at that time.
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 Komarov | First Cosmonauts | VideoCosmos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gagarin Ya.A., Komarov V.M. and Nikolaev A.G. hunting.
Khrunov Y.V. ("Soyuz-2"), Komarov V.M. ("Soyuz-1"), Yeliseyev A.S. ("Soyuz-2"), Bykovskiy V.F. ("Soyuz-2").
Pilot of "Soyuz-1" colonel Komarov V.M. during preparation to flight.
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 Vladimir Komarov Russian Soviet Russia Voskhod 1 parachute NSA Istanbul Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Komarov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Vladimir Komarov Russian Soviet Russia Voskhod 1 parachute NSA Istanbul Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Komarov
represented by Kavina herself, Brazilian Jorge Antunes (with electronic tape) and Russian Vladimir Komarov, whose work also incorporates the inventor's voice and a rendition of Glinka's infamous The...
With Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov participated in a 1964 Earth orbital mission in Voskhod 1, the first craft to carry more than one person into...
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On his second flight, Soyuz 1, he was killed when the spacecraft crashed due to failure of the parachute.
Just before impact, the then premier Kosygin told Komarov his country was proud of him — an American NSA listening post in Istanbul noted Komarov's reply was inaudible.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science/Health -- Space disasters since exploration began
January 1967 –; Three U.S. astronauts – Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White – die in a "flash fire" aboard Apollo 1 during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.
April 1967 –; Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov is first man to die in a space mission when a parachute on his spaceship fails on re-entry and the ship crashes to Earth.
June 1971 –; Three Soviet cosmonauts die during re-entry after 24 days in an orbiting space laboratory, a record endurance flight at that time.
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 Mineralogical Almanac - News archive
Name: after Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (1927—1967), Russian cosmonaut doomed while the flight down the Earth in 1967, April 23.
Name: after Boris Mikhailovich Kupletsky (1894—1965), geologist and petrographer, IGN, Moscow, and El’za Maksimilianovna Bonshtedt-Kupletskaya (1897—1974), mineralogist-encyclopedist, specialist in mineralogy of alkaline massifs and investigation techniques for minerals, IMGRE, Moscow.
Name: after Vladimir Stepanovich Sobolev (1908— 1982), mineralogist and petrologist, specialist in physical-chemical petrology, investigator of Siberia, academician of the AN SSSR; Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk.
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 Guardian | Space disasters - a timeline
January 1967: Three U.S. astronauts, Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White, die in a "flash fire" aboard Apollo 1 during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.
April 1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov is first man to die in a space mission when a parachute on his spaceship failed on re-entry and the ship crashed to Earth.
July 1971: Three Soviet cosmonauts die during re-entry after 24 days in an orbiting space laboratory, a record endurance flight at that time.
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