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At Baikonur, site numbers refer to facilities. Site 0 was the construction headquarters and residential area and, as the first major project, this launch pad was named Site 1. Its processing facilities were called Site 2 and its oxygen/nitrogen plant was Site 3. [2] The facility was later designated as Pad No. 5 for the R-7 programme. [3]
Vostok 6A - pair to Vostok 5 group flight with female cosmonaut instead fulfilled Vostok 6 flight Vostok 7 - 8-days high-altitude flight for radiological-biological studies with natural re-entry from orbit [2]
Vostok 6 was the last flight of a Vostok 3KA spacecraft and the final flight of the Vostok programme. The Vostok 6 landing site coordinates are 53°12′34″N 80°48′14″E / 53.209375°N 80.80395°E / 53.209375; 80.80395 , 200 km (120 mi) west of Barnaul , Altai, Russia and 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Baevo, and 650 km (400 mi ...
The first flight of a Vostok 3KA occurred on March 9, 1961. The first flight with a crew—Vostok 1 carrying Yuri Gagarin—took place on April 12, 1961. The last flight—Vostok 6 carrying the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova—took place on June 16, 1963. A total of 8 Vostok 3KA spacecraft were flown, 6 of them with a human crew.
Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and was designed for the human spaceflight programme. This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite ( Sputnik 1 ) and the first crewed spacecraft ( Vostok ) in human history.
Both pads suffered significant damage due to explosions in the 1980s. The first incident, on 18 March 1980, which came to be known as the Plesetsk launch pad disaster, occurred when a Vostok-2M rocket exploded during fueling operations at Site 43/4, killing 48 people and injuring dozens more. The damage was so extensive that the pad remained ...
1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster; I. Ivan Ivanovich (Vostok programme) K. Korabl-Sputnik 1; ... List of Vostok and Voskhod missions; S. SK-1 spacesuit; Vostok ...
Vostok 1: 3KA-3: 12 April 1961: 12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin: Success: First man in space. Vostok 2: 3KA-4: 6 August 1961: 7 August 1961: Gherman Titov: Success: First crewed mission lasting a full day. Vostok 3: 3KA-5: 11 August 1962: 15 August 1962: Andriyan Nikolayev: Success: First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft. Vostok 4: 3KA ...