The Cold Cold War

FIFTY FIVE YEARS AGO,
the mighty Russian Soyuz-1 spacecraft stood on the launch pad at the Baikanur Cosmodrome in the Soviet state of Kazakhstan. It was 1965, the Russian moon landing program was several years ahead of the US Apollo moon program. This was to be the first manned test flight of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
On board the Soyuz-1 spacecraft was a single cosmonaut. The Soyuz-2 spacecraft would follow and they would test docking procedures.
But, the Soyuz-1 was plagued with problems...