So!First Of All,hello,everybody!I Am A Fan Of Yuri Gagarin,who Just Decided To Make A Tumble Page In

I feel the same about him, so don't worry, I understand you. Alexei Leonov could've died because of him, what happened to Komarov... And yes, I am on Facebook.

ahah,great!So join the club!! Please feel free to add me!My name on Facebook is Natsumi Ogata Cherry Punk. Hope to see you there!And btw,thanks a lot for reblogging my photos of Yuri! ;)

You sweet thing... I love you <3

And I assure you,pageysflower,you are not the only one having that feeling!!! LOL

Oh, we love you so much.... what else can we say? .... I know that everybody will agree with me, am I right ,sister? :)

Oh,yeah,I guess everybody would actually have to agree with us...Only Yuri's smile alone,have conquered the whole world!

what a smile! What a kissable, lovable and most gorgeous spaceboy! 

That uniform... that smile... I´m lost... I´m about to die because of love!

And you're not the only one feeling like this,I assure you!!

forever friends and brothers- Yuri and Volodya <3

God bless these two beautiful souls...Brothers-in-arms,best friends.A friendship like no any other in the world.A lesson of friendship which the world should learn from!

Hello, nice to see another blog dedicated to Yuri over here! :) BTW, it's me who's running the yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin blog.

heyyyy...!Nice to meet you!and thanks for such a wonderful blog!!I love it and i am following it!!Well,sorry about my furious rant when i reblogged you,but that man just gets on my nerves...and reading his name is well enough to irritate me beyond words.Awful human being without a heart.I will follow you closely,as i love your blog about Yuri.I am a fan of him,since my childhood.Please keep in touch!Are you on Facebook?

Right,as it is known,my Tumblr page is solely dedicated to Yuri Gagarin,but here,I must open an exception to this man named Vladimir Komarov.This man,was Yuri's best friend,and he gave his life in order to save Yuri!His ill-fated flight on Soyuz...omg,this man was brave!In his own words about going on the flight: "If I don't go,they will send Yuri.And we need to protect him."

Probably they all knew things were gonna be really bad,and the flight wouldn't be a success,but from this,to sacrificing his life for his best friend...WOW.

It is said Yuri knew the Soyuz was in no condition to make the flight,when he inspected it,and he spoke out about that.But he was not heard.After the incident,they banned Yuri from flying.As it was not bad enough having lost his best friend and feeling guilty for that,he gets banned from Flying,something which was his life.

I still say,these people had a vacuum in their skulls instead of brains.And I still believe Yuri was actually murdered.

46 years ago today (April 24, 1967) cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed on landing after returning from a 1 day trip in Earth orbit. He was the first person killed during a space mission. His flight, Soyuz-1, was marred by trouble from the moment he entered orbit. Unfortunately, a lot of speculation, rumor, and outright crazy theories still characterize popular notions about this terribly tragic mission. Komarov’s death is like the JFK assassination in U.S. culture; everybody has a theory about why it happened and no one believes the official version. Actually the ‘official’ version is probably the most plausible and likely account. Basically, there were serious problems in the packing of his parachutes (both the primary and the backup chutes) and they both failed to perform properly upon deployment when the capsule was falling through the atmosphere after reentry. Without a working parachute, the capsule smashed into the Earth about 65 kilometers east of the town of Orsk, a town near the southern tip of the Ural Mountain range in southern Russia. The capsule basically flattened like a pancake and exploded upon impact (due to 30 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide which was to have been used for the actual landing but was never used). Komarov may have already been unconscious by the time of impact although we will never know exactly. There was a tape recorder on board to record the cosmonaut during reentry but the tape recorder was found completely melted. Komarov’s body was basically burned to a pulp.

Komarov was 40 years old at the time of his death and probably one of the most accomplished men in cosmonaut corps. He had already flown on the very risky Voskhod mission in 1964 and was the first cosmonaut to fly a second space mission. He was survived by his wife, Valentina, and two children Yevgeniy and Irina who were 16 and 9 at the time of their father’s death.

For a detailed account of his mission, see here [pdf].

For a recent interview with his daughter (in Russian), see here.

such а great graffiti was painted in Kharkov in Ukraine. I hope that this masterpiece won`t be spoil by stupid people

OMG...great precious piece of work!!we had one similar in my hometown,but some stupid vandals have totally spoiled it...I was so mad...LOL...Thanks for such a great photo!

aww baby! <3