The Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his spacecraft, Soyuz 1, crashed upon re-entry.
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Re-entry
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Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 再入 noun (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere)
Hindi
1 entries- पुनःप्रवेश noun (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere)
Tagalog
1 entries- balipasok noun (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere)
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Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev were killed in re-entry in 1971. They were returning to Earth after successfully manning Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station.
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The mission of Apollo 13, though, was a near disaster as an explosion damaged the craft on the way to the Moon. The mission had to be aborted and re-entry was achieved only with great difficulty.
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On July 11, 1979, after more than six years in space, the Skylab space station re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Most of Skylab burned up upon re-entry. A few fragments fell to the ground in an uninhabited part of Australia.
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