16 march 1927 24 april 1967 was a soviet test pilot aerospace engineer and cosmonaut in october 1964 he commanded voskhod 1 the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. влади мир миха йлович комаро в ipa. Vladimir mikhaylovich komarov russian.
The commander georgy dobrovolsky the flight engineer vladislav volkov and the test engineer viktor patsayev. There were three cosmonauts onboard soyuz 11. An earlier space mission soyuz 10 had docked but failed to properly latch on and the cosmonauts had therefore been unable to enter the space station.
In 1961 just before gagarin s space flight a soviet cosmonaut was killed when a devastating fire erupted inside an oxygen rich training capsule. In 1960 a soviet rocket ignited on the launching pad killing at least 78 of the ground crew. But the apparent success of the soviet program was hiding a few dark secrets.
On june 6 the cosmonauts georgi dobrovolsky vladislav volkov and viktor patsayev were launched into space aboard soyuz 11 on a mission to dock and enter salyut 1 the soviet space station that. In one famous recording they released a woman can be heard asking for help in russian making for either an interesting forgery or a deeply disturbing bit of history. The brothers claimed a number of other recorded soviet failures from there with at least five more reports of soviet spacecraft being lost in deep space or burning up on reentry after gagarin s success.
This extraordinarily intimate account of the 1967 death of a russian cosmonaut appears in a new book starman by jamie doran and piers bizony to be published next month. The current statistical fatality rate is 3 2 percent. In each case the entire crew was killed.
Three of them had flown above the kármán line edge of space and one was intended to do so. As of june 2020 in flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents. Proponents of the lost cosmonauts theory argue that the soviet union attempted to launch two or more human spaceflights before gagarin s.
The lost cosmonauts or phantom cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory alleging that soviet cosmonauts went to outer space before yuri gagarin but their existence has never been publicly acknowledged by either the soviet or russian space authorities.
