Facts about Vladimir Komarov

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   Soviet authorities honored Vladimir Komarov as a Hero of the Soviet Union twice, and his remains were interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow.

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   Komarov's spacewalk during the 1965 Voskhod 2 mission required him to exit the capsule through an airlock designed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Institute engineer Oleg Ivanovsky.

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   Komarov's 1964 Voskhod 2 flight carried three cosmonauts into orbit, establishing a Soviet record for crew size that remained unmatched until Skylab 2 launched eight years later.

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   Komarov piloted Voskhod 2 in March 1965 with a three-person crew, demonstrating Soviet capability to conduct complex multi-cosmonaut missions before American Gemini flights achieved similar achievements.

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   Before his fatal 1967 mission, Komarov logged 24 hours and 17 minutes in space across two flights, making him one of the most experienced Soviet cosmonauts of the early space program.

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   Komarov's 1964 Voskhod 2 mission made him the first human to conduct a spacewalk alongside Pavel Belyayev for twelve minutes.

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   In 1967, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died when Soyuz 1's parachute failed during reentry, making him the first human to die in spaceflight.

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