Russian Astronaut Who Fell From Space. In time, it was hoped that soyuz would demonstrate rendezvous, docking, space station operations and. The soviet union has announced the catastrophic failure of its latest space mission, with the crash of soyuz 1 and the death of the cosmonaut on board.
A few days earlier, cosmonaut vladimir komarov had been launched into orbit aboard the new soyuz spacecraft. One of the most horrific and mysterious deaths in space is that of ussr cosmonaut vladimir komarov, a close friend of yuri gagarin.