The SOVIETS sacrificed this cosmonaut to win the space race! Komarov story

Vladimir Komarov was the first person to die during a space mission. The flight of the Soviet Soyuz-1 spacecraft ended in a tragic crash. How could it come to this?

Translated from German - Original by @AstroTim
Voiceover by ElevenLabs.io

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Photo credit: NASA/ESA

Sources:
https://www.space.com/11293-npr-russian-cosmonaut-death-book-gagarin-komarov.html
https://www.spiegel.de/forschung/technik/wladimir-komarow-kosmonaut-starb-1967-beim-abrutsch-der-sojus-1-a-1144076.html