Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry in April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. He was declared medically unfit for training or spaceflight twice while he was in the program, but his perseverance, superior skills, and engineering knowledge allowed him to continue playing an active role.
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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. Komarov was declared medically unfit for training or spaceflight twice while he was in the program, but his perseverance, superior skills, and engineering knowledge allowed him to continue playing an active role. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry in April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. He was one of the most highly experienced and qualified candidates accepted into the first squad of cosmonauts selected in 1960. His father was a labourer who worked at various low-paid jobs to support the family. He showed an interest in aeronautics from an early age, and he collected magazines and pictures about aviation, in addition to making model aircraft and his own propeller. His mother died in 1948, seven months before his graduation in 1949, at which he received his pilot’s wings and commission as a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force. He had a great influence on the design of the ‘Vosostok’ aircraft, and was the first member of the first group of members of the group to test the new aircraft on the ground. In addition to being a test pilot and engineer, Komarov also had experience as a flight engineer on new aircraft.
He died of a heart attack on April 24, 1967, at the age of 32; he was the second oldest of the second group of pilots chosen; only two pilots chosen were younger than 27. He is survived by his wife, Valentina Yakovlevna Kiselyova, and a daughter, Maria. He leaves behind a wife and a son, Vladimir. He also leaves behind two step-children, Vladimir and Yevgeny, who were born in Moscow in 1927. He never married. He has a son and a step-daughter, Vladimir, who was born in 1937 and died in 2008. He left school because of World War II and the German invasion of the Soviet Union and he became a laborer on a collective farm. In 1946, he completed his first year of training at the Chkalov Higher Air Force School in Borisoglebsk in Voronezh Oblast. In 1949, he was assigned as the chief pilot of the 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 279th Fighter Air Division in the Prikarpate Region. In 1954, he continued to fly in that position until 1954, and then he enrolled in an engineering course at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. In 1959, he achieved his goal of becoming a test Pilot at the Central Scientific Research Institute. In September 1959 he was promoted to engineer-captain and invited to participate in the selection process for cosmon astronaut candidate along with approximately 3,000 other pilots. In March 1960 he was selected for Air Force Group One.
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