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This mission was also a complete success, which was the final step required to get approval for a crewed mission. The re-entry module of the Korabl-Sputnik 5 spacecraft, also called Vostok 3KA-2, was auctioned at Sotheby's on April 12, 2011, the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, Vostok 1. Evgeny Yurchenko, a Russian investment ...
Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") was a class of single-pilot crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The first human spaceflight was accomplished with Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961 , by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin .
Model of the Vostok capsule with its carrier rocket's upper stage. Vostok 3 (Russian: Восток-3, lit. 'Orient 3' or 'East 3') and Vostok 4 (Восток-4, 'Orient 4' or 'East 4') were Soviet space program flights in August 1962, intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness, test the ground control capability to launch and manage two ...
Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, lit. ' East ' or ' Orient ') was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit ...
This is a list of the human spaceflight missions conducted by the Soviet space program.These missions belong to the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz space programs.. The first patch from the Soviet Space Program was worn by Valentina Tereshkova, [1] then the same patch for the Voskhod 2, Soyuz 4/5 and Soyuz 11, [2] Soyuz 3 had an official insignia that wasn't worn during the flight, [3] and then in ...
Orbital human spaceflight (beyond ... Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963, aboard the Vostok 6. [81 ... 'Air and Space Ship'), [87 ...
First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft. Vostok 4: 3KA-6: 12 August 1962: 15 August 1962: Pavel Popovich: Success: First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft. Vostok 5: 3KA-7: 14 June 1963: 19 June 1963: Valery Bykovsky: Success: Longest solo orbital flight. Vostok 6: 3KA-8: 16 June 1963: 19 June 1963: Valentina Tereshkova ...
Vostok 2 (Russian: Восток-2, lit. ' Orient 2 ' or ' East 2 ') was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961, to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. [1]