Who was the first astronaut to die in space?
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crew of Soyuz 11
List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
first man to die in space
List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents Yuri Gagarin Lost Cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov List of astronauts by first flight Neil Armstrong Alan Shepard Gus Grissom First Man (film) Alexei Leonov
This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in 
human fatality ... NASA astronauts who <b>died</b> on duty are memorialized at the 
<b>Space</b> Mirror Memorial ... At first, observers thought he might roll all the way to the 
bottom of the slope, but ... &quot;Report: <b>First Man</b> In <b>Space</b> Nearly <b>Died</b> In The Attempt
&quot;. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air 
Forces pilot and ... Gagarin <b>died</b> five weeks later when the MiG-15 training jet he 
was piloting with his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed ... &quot;Why Yuri 
Gagarin remains the <b>first man</b> in <b>space</b>, even though he did not land inside his 
spacecraft&quot;. The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy 
theory alleging ... prior to Gagarin&#39;s, and that at least two cosmonauts <b>died</b> in 
those attempts. Another ... alleged by some to have actually been the <b>first man</b> in 
<b>space</b> on April 7, 1961, an honor generally attributed to Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 
1961. Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and 
cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the <b>first</b> spaceflight to 
carry more than one crew member. He became the <b>first</b> cosmonaut to fly in <b>space</b> 
twice when he was selected as ... re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the <b>first</b> 
human to <b>die</b> in a <b>space</b> flight. This is a list of astronauts by <b>first</b> flight, in chronological order, according to the 
international ... <b>first</b> to fly solo around the Moon and <b>first</b> to command a <b>Space</b> 
Shuttle. Vladimir Komarov, joint 14th <b>person</b> and <b>first</b> to <b>die</b> during spaceflight (
during Soyuz 1). Neil Armstrong, 26th <b>person</b> in <b>space</b> and <b>first</b> to set foot on the 
Moon. Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American 
astronaut and aeronautical engineer and the <b>first person</b> to walk on the Moon. ... 
He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force&#39;s Man in <b>Space</b> Soonest and X-20 
Dyna-Soar human spaceflight ... &quot;Neil Armstrong, <b>First Man</b> on Moon, <b>Dies</b> at 82&quot;. Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was 
an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he 
became the <b>first</b> American to travel into <b>space</b>, and in 1971, he ... He became the 
second <b>person</b>, and the <b>first</b> American, to travel into <b>space</b>, and the <b>first space</b>&nbsp;... Virgil Ivan &quot;Gus&quot; Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was a United States 
Air Force (USAF) pilot and a member of the Mercury Seven selected by National 
Aeronautics and <b>Space</b> Administration&#39;s (NASA) as Project Mercury astronauts to 
be the first ... &quot;Second American to travel in <b>space</b>; <b>first person</b> to enter <b>space</b> 
twice&quot;. <b>First Man</b> is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Damien 
Chazelle and written ... Jason Clarke as Ed White, Neil&#39;s friend and neighbor, the 
first American to walk in <b>space</b>, who <b>died</b> during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1, 
which&nbsp;... Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and 
Russian ... He was also selected to be the <b>first</b> Soviet <b>person</b> to land on the Moon, 
aboard the ... Leonov&#39;s second trip into <b>space</b> was as commander of Soyuz 19, 
the Soviet half of ... Leonov <b>died</b> on 11 October 2019 after a long illness in 
Moscow.
Vladimir Komarov
List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents