Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
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Russia’s original space program nearly killed cosmonauts with crazy blunders and amateur tech
Cosmonauts were not allowed to tell even their ... They also concealed the fact that Gagarin nearly died returning to Earth. Hints and rumors would circulate, but the facts wouldn’t be widely ...
Secrets of new space race from dark death speech to astronauts who can't walk
The dramatic rescue of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station has added another incredible ...
Cosmonaut who spent 437 days in space had particular reason for refusing to be carried out of landing capsule
A Russian cosmonaut who holds the world record for the longest time spent in space for one trip revealed why he refused help ...
Who Has Spent the Longest Time in Space?
As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams return to Earth this week after being stranded at the ISS for 9 months, ...
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NASA astronauts say world’s first man in space Gagarin ‘changed civilization forever’
His flight lasted 108 minutes. The world’s first cosmonaut died in an air crash while performing a test flight on a MiG-15UTI training fighter jet together with instructor Vladimir Seryogin on ...
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Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day
Later, he took the position of deputy chief of the Cosmonauts Training Center’s space flight training program. Gagarin was a standby of his colleague, Vladimir Komarov, who died on April 24 ...