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Postage stamp honouring Komarov

Forty years ago, on April 24, 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров) was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed during its attempted landing. This was the first in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight. (more...)

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