Interesting one this
26. Medals Commemorating Two Dead Cosmonauts
One of these will be Vladimir Komorov who died in April 1967 when the parachute of his Soyuz 1 capsule failed after re-entrry. AFAIK no other cosmonauts were killed on missions before 1969, so I wonder who the second one was?
It actually commemorates Pavel Belyayev.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Belyayev
No. Quoting the Wikipedia article "His name appears on the plaque accompanying the Fallen Astronaut sculpture placed on the Moon on 1 August 1971 by the crew of Apollo 15". We were discussing the medals left by the Apollo 11 crew, and Belyayev didn't die until nearly six months after Apollo 11.
