Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 17 2007

{{Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Template|Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov|Forty years ago, on April 24, 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров) was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed during its attempted landing. This was the first in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight.|The Soviet Union 1964 CPA 3110 stamp (3-men Space Flight of Komarov, Yegorov and Feoktistov. Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967), a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut).jpg|Postage stamp honouring Komarov}}