<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program" id="mw4g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet space program">Soviet space program</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soyuz 1">Soyuz 1</a> (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonaut" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cosmonaut">cosmonaut</a> Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vladimir Komarov">Vladimir Komarov</a> is launched into orbit.