Astronaut’s devastating decision before he ‘melted’ crashing back to earth

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died on 24 April 1967 when his Soyuz 1 capsule crashed after a parachute failureVladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov’s body was melted into a lump(Image: ullstein bild via Getty Images)Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov tragically earned the title of ‘the man who fell from space’, following a gruesome funeral the crash of a Soyuz-1 spaceflight as part of the Soviet space programme.