Apollo 1
Virgil Grissom
Ed White II
Roger Chaffee
White's Medal of Honor
Chaffee's Medal of Honor

Soyuz 1
Vladimir Komarov

Soyuz 11
Georgi Dobrovolsky
Viktor Patsayev
Vladislav Volkov

Challenger STS-51L
Francis Scobee
Michael Smith
Ellison Onizuka
Ronald McNair
Judith Resnik
Gregory Jarvis
S. Christa McAuliffe
President Reagan's Speech
Memorial Service

Columbia STS-107
Rick Husband
William McCool
David Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Michael Anderson
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
Photos
President Bush's Speech
Memorial Service

Other
Valentine Bondarenko
Ed Givens
Honorable Mention
Credits
About the Author

Born: 23 November 1935 in Moscow, USSR.

Education: Aircraft designer, Moscow Aviation Institute.

Marital Status: Married.

Children: One.

Experience: Vladislav Volkov was selected on 23 May 1966 as a civilian engineer cosmonaut.  From 12 October - 17 October 1969 he served as flight engineer of Soyuz 7.   This was the second of three Soyuz launches in three days.  It is believed that Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 were supposed to have docked, but this did not occur.  Soyuz 7 lasted 4 days, 22 hours, and 41 minutes.  Volkov later served as backup flight engineer for Soyuz 10.

On 6 June 1971 he as launched as flight engineer of Soyuz 11 along with crewmates Georgi Dobrovolsky (commander) and Viktor Patsayev (research engineer).  They became the first crew of the world's first space station, Salyut 1.  After a 23 day mission the crew was killed during preparations for re-entry.