Editing Vladimir Komarov (section)

==Response to Komarov's death==
[[File:The Soviet Union 1964 CPA 3110 stamp (3-men Space Flight of Komarov, Yegorov and Feoktistov. Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967), a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut).jpg|thumb|1964 USSR postage stamp honoring Vladimir Komarov]]

In his diary, Kamanin recorded that the Soyuz 1 capsule crashed into the ground at {{convert|30|–|40|m/s}} and that the remains of Komarov's body were an irregular lump {{convert|30|cm}} in diameter and {{convert|80|cm}} long. Three hours after the capsule's crash, [[Mstislav Keldysh|Keldysh]], [[Georgi Aleksandrovich Tyulin|Tyulin]], [[Sergei Rudenko (general)|Rudenko]], and other State Commission members visited the site. At 21:45 Kamanin accompanied Komarov's remains to the [[Orsk Airport|Orsk aerodrome]], where they were loaded on an [[Ilyushin Il-18|Il-18]]. Ten minutes before departure an [[An-12]] landed with [[Nikolai Kuznetsov (engineer)|Kuznetsov]] and several cosmonauts. Kamanin's aircraft arrived in Moscow in the early hours of the next morning. The aircraft had to divert to [[Sheremetyevo International Airport|Sheremetyevo]] since all the other airfields around Moscow were closed to takeoffs or landings due to weather. [[Konstantin Vershinin]]'s orders were that Komarov's remains were to be photographed, then immediately cremated so that a state burial in the Kremlin wall could take place.<ref name=Siddiqippp45>{{cite book |last=Siddiqi |first=Asif |author-link=Asif Azam Siddiqi |date=2020 |title=Soyuz 1 The Death of Vladimir Komarov Pressure, Politics, and Parachutes  |publisher=SpaceHistory101.com Press |pages=45–46 |isbn=9781887022958}}</ref> The remains underwent a quick autopsy that morning, then were cremated.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kamanin Diaries |url=http://www.astronautix.com/k/kamanindiaries.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820192321/http://www.astronautix.com/k/kamanindiaries.html |archive-date=2016-08-20 |access-date=2019-10-11 |website=www.astronautix.com}}</ref>

On 25 April, a response to Komarov's death by his fellow cosmonauts was published in ''[[Pravda]]'':
"For the forerunners it is always more difficult. They tread the unknown paths and these paths are not straight, they have sharp turns, surprises and dangers. But anyone who takes the pathway into orbit never wants to leave it. And no matter what difficulties or obstacles there are, they are never strong enough to deflect such a man from his chosen path. While his heart beats in his chest, a cosmonaut will always continue to challenge the universe. Vladimir Komarov was one of the first on this treacherous path."<ref name="First Man in Space">{{Cite book| year = 1984|editor-link=Nikolai Tsymbal| editor-last = Tsymbal| editor-first = Nikolai| title = First Man in Space| place = Moscow| publisher = Progress Publishers Moscow| page = 105}}</ref>

When interviewed on 17 May by the newspaper ''[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]'', Gagarin alluded to the failure of the administration to listen to the concerns about the Soyuz module that the cosmonaut corps had identified, and maintained that Komarov's death should teach the establishment to be more rigorous in its testing and evaluation of "all the mechanisms of the spaceship, even more attentive to all stages of checking and testing, even more vigilant in our encounter with the unknown. He has shown us how dangerous the pathway to space is. His flight and his death will teach us courage."<ref name="First Man in Space"/> In May 1967, Gagarin and Leonov criticised program head [[Vasily Mishin]]'s "poor knowledge of the Soyuz spacecraft and the details of its operation, his lack of cooperation in working with the cosmonauts in flight and training activities," and asked Kamanin to cite him in the official crash report.<ref>Kamanin Diary, 5 May 1967</ref>