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April 24, 1967

EVENING OUTLOOK, Santa Monica, California, EXTRA, April 24, 1967.
 
* Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov
* Soyuz 1 capsule crash - 1st human killed


The front page has a nice banner headline: "Russ Spacehip's Plunge Kills Pilot; Chute Fails, Craft Crashes" with subhead and photo. (see) Nice for display.
Incomplete issue containing all 12 pages of the 1st section only of 28 page newspaper. A little margin wear, otherwise good.
 
wikipedia notes: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: March 16, 1927 - April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was the first confirmed human to die during a space mission, on Soyuz 1, and the first Soviet cosmonaut to travel into space more than once.
 

Category: The 20th Century