"Soyuz-1”
Date of launch: April 23, 1967.
Launch site: Baykonur Cosmodrome (USSR).
Launch vehicle: the "Soyuz” rocket-carrier.
Launch crew:
Commander – Vladimir KOMAROV (USSR).
Brief Summary: Due to a number of malfunctions taken place in flight, the spacecraft performed deorbiting ahead of time to return to Earth.
Crash landing due to a malfunction of the landing capsule parachute system.
Landing crew:
Commander – Vladimir KOMAROV (USSR).
Date of crash landing: April 24, 1967.
Place of crash landing: 65 kilometers to East from the city of Orsk; in the vicinity of the small town of Karabulak, Orenburg region, USSR. |
