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April 24, 2006
What Price Space? (Soyuz 1)
Thirty-nine years ago (1967) on this day, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov perished when, in the final stage of return, his Soyuz 1 capsule's main chute failed to deploy, and its reserve chute became entangled in its drag chute; drawing to a grim conclusion a mission plagued with devastating problems from its intial orbital insertion some thirty hours earlier.
Soyuz 1 had a 3-crew capacity, and was to take part in a mission where two cosmonauts from Soyuz 2 (scheduled to launch the following day) would transfer to Soyuz 1 via space walk and return to Earth with Komarov.
![[ image: Soyuz 1 Mission Patch ]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/tacitus/soyuz_1_patch.png)
Posted by Tacitus at April 24, 2006 02:07 PM