Minta Tamarra

Astronaut Falling From Space. On 24 april 1967, cosmonaut vladimir komarov became the first man to die in space. In the vacuum of space, where there are no air molecules or supportive surfaces, astronauts are only acted upon by gravity.

On the figure, we show an orbiting space shuttle and a space walking astronaut. His spaceflight on soyuz 1 made him the first soviet cosmonaut to fly into outer space more than once, and he became the.