\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> April 23, 1967
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 1 day 2 hr 48 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Vladimir M Komarov
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Komarov becomes the first person to make two space flights, on the first manned flight of the new Soyuz spacecraft; but he is killed during return to Earth when spacecraft systems and parachute fail, becoming the first known in-flight space fatality.