Editing Vladimir Komarov (section)

===Voskhod 1===
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By July 1964, only seven cosmonauts remained eligible for the Voskhod crew after some were disqualified on medical grounds. On 6 July, Komarov was named as the commander of the back-up crew for Voskhod 1. After several months of much heated debate  between Kamanin and Korolev over the selection of the crew, Komarov was named as prime crew commander by the State Commission on 4 October 1964, just eight days before its scheduled launch.<ref>Kamanin Diary, 4 October 1964</ref> Kamanin played tennis with the Voskhod crew that evening and noted that Komarov played poorly in comparison to his crew: [[Boris Yegorov]] and [[Konstantin Feoktistov]].

On 9 October, Komarov and the crew inspected the Voskhod with Korolev and other members of the administration. Later that day they were interviewed by the state press and played tennis for the benefit of photographers.

On the morning of 11 October, Komarov was given various communist relics to take with him into space the following day. In the afternoon the crew again inspected the capsule and were given their final instructions by Korolev. Komarov was the only member of the crew to have undertaken extensive training and was the only member with any flight experience; the two other crewmen being civilians. His call sign was "Ruby" (Russian: Рубин).

During the mission Komarov performed various tasks with the other crew members, including medical and navigational tests and observing the [[Aurora (astronomy)|Aurora Borealis]]. Komarov alone carried out tests with [[ion thrusters]] that had been attached to the Voskhod.<ref name=SiddiqiCTA423>{{cite book |last=Siddiqi |first=Asif A |date=2000|title=Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and The Space Race, 1945–1974 |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf |publisher=NASA |page=423 }}</ref>   He also made a number of radio transmissions, including a greeting to the [[1964 Summer Olympics|Tokyo Olympics]], which had opened on 10 October. The mission lasted just over twenty-four hours. After the crew landed safely they were flown back to the launch site at [[Tyuratam]] (also known as [[Baikonur]] to disguise its true location). Kamanin noted in his diary that while his crew were in good spirits, Komarov was fatigued.<ref>Kamanin Diary, 13 October 1964</ref> On 19 October, Komarov and his crew made reports in Red Square and attended an audience at the Kremlin.<ref>Kamanin Diary, 19 October 1964</ref> After the success of this short but scientifically important mission he was promoted to colonel.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Hall | first1 = Rex | last2 = Shayler | first2 = David | title = The Rocket Men: Vostok & Voskhod, The first Soviet Manned Spaceflights | year= 2001 | page = 355 | publisher = Springer | isbn = 1-85233-391-X}}</ref> The success of the mission earned Komarov the awards of the ''[[Order of Lenin]]'' and ''[[Hero of the Soviet Union]]''.

In December 1964, the RVSN ([[Strategic Rocket Forces]]) requested that Komarov be transferred from the VVS ([[Soviet Air Force]]) to the RVSN, in a move possibly motivated by the poor record of the RVSN in producing successful rockets compared to the VVS. The request was opposed by Kamanin.<ref>Kamanin Diary, 30 December 1964</ref>

In 1965, Komarov worked with Gagarin in supervising preparations for the flight of [[Voskhod 2]], which carried out the first attempt of an [[extravehicular activity]] in outer space. These preparations included fitting of [[space suit]]s on the cosmonauts and briefings for the spaceflight. In April of that year, Komarov toured [[Leningrad]] with Kamanin, Gagarin, Titov, Belyayev, and Leonov. Komarov also visited Petropavlovsk Fortress with [[Valentin Glushko]] where Glushko had conducted early rocket experiments in the early 1930s.<ref>Kamanin Diary, 28 April 1965</ref> In September that year, Komarov toured West Germany.