Deaths in space: The Soviet space program also suffered the first, and so-far only, deaths in space in 1971, when cosmonauts
Georgi Dobrovolski,
Viktor Patsayev,
Vladislav Volkov died while returning to Earth from the Salyut 1 space station. Their
Soyuz 11 craft performed a textbook-perfect landing in 1971.Oct 11, 2013
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