The #Soyuz1 mission launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1967, carrying cosmonaut #VladimirKomarov, a veteran of the earlier #Voskhod1 mission, into orbit. Its landing parachute later failed and killed him on reëntry, making #Komarov the first in-flight fatality of the #SpaceRace.

First #Ukrainian gold at the 2024 #Paralympic Games!

#Oleksandr_Komarov won the 100-meter freestyle distance competition.

This is #Ukraine's sixth medal at the 2024 #Paralympics and the second personal medal for #Komarov at the Games in #Paris.

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🏊🥉🥈 #Ukraine already has four medals from the 2024 Paralympics : swimmer #Oleksandr_Komarov won bronze, and #Iryna_Poyda won silver in the 200-meter freestyle

Today's "silver" is #Komarov's first medal at the Paralympics in eight years. In 2016, in #Rio_de_Janeiro, he received gold and bronze awards.

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The first eleven #Soviet #cosmonauts, July 1965. Back row, left to right: #Leonov, #Titov, #Bykovsky, #Yegorov, #Popovich; front row: #Komarov, #Gagarin, #Tereshkova, #Nikolayev, #Feoktistov, #Belyayev. This image hangs on the wall behind the reception of the Hotel #Chaika in #Karaganda #Kazakhstan. The chosen hotel for the Soviet #Cosmonaut programme in the 1960s #photo #photography #travel
24 avril 1967 : Vladimir #Komarov est le premier spationaute à mourir lors d’une mission spatiale, à bord de Soyouz 1. #histoire #cejourla #invention

2023-03-25 #video

"This is where I've been living for a year" - #Zelensky showed Ukrainian #journalist Dmytro #Komarov his #wartime living conditions and his #wardrobe.

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