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Posted on December 17, 2015

“It’s a terrible scene. Komarov burned up. All the instruments burned. We must quickly find out what prevented the main parachute from unlatching.” Chief Designer Mishin after he arrived at the Soyuz 1 crash site.

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1-Soyuz 1 crash site

Posted on March 9, 2016

Hundreds of millions of people all over the planet had seen Gagarin smiling joyfully in person or on television. He was theirs, familiar to everyone, and at the same time a “Citizen of the Universe.”

3-50th anniversary stamp of Ukraine

2-Plaque indicating Gagarin’s interment in the Kremlin Wall

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Posted on March 13, 2019

The original Soyuz 9 mission was planned to fly two Soyuz spacecraft in the August to September 1970 time frame for a rendezvous and docking; however, at the end of December 1969 the communist party bosses ordered that the mission be changed to a sin...

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P3-Soyuz 9 rollout

P2- Sevastiyanov Vitali Credit- www.spacefacts.de

p1- Andriyan Nikolayev Credit- www.spacefacts.de