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The Death Of Valentin Bondarenko
The first killed cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko. Worst of all, that he died not during the flight and during testing on earth. March 23, 1961, less than a month before Gagarin's flight, Bondarenko was in surdobarokamere and carelessly threw aside the wool, which wiped away the sweat. Wool caught on a hot spiral tiles, which led to the rapid combustion of oxygen inside the chamber.



Apollo 1
The first Space explorers who have died directly in the spacecraft were three American astronauts who participated in Apollo program-1:. They died on January 27 1967, inside the rocket during tests on the ground.



Virgil Grissom, Edward white and Roger Chaffee
Soyuz-1
And just 3 months later, on April 24, 1967, the spacecraft died, and the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. But, when compared with its American counterparts, Vladimir flew into Space, but died when returning to Earth.

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