That isn&#x27;t a debunking as much as a refinement of the claims. The USSR&#x27;s early space program was really this dangerous. Soyuz 1 was a failure that lead to a death and Komarov knew he was going to die before he stepped into the craft.  Komarov was the first in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight. Just four years later the Soyuz program killed three more cosmonauts as well.