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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 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 final Vostok flight [33] and was launched two days after Vostok 5 which carried Bykovsky into a five-day mission. [34] The two vessels spent three days in orbital planes 30° apart and, during Tereshkova's first orbit, approached each other to within 5 km (3.1 mi).
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 ...
Vostok 3: 3KA-5: 11 August 1962: 15 August 1962: Andriyan Nikolayev: Success: 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 ...
Vostok 5: 19 June 1963 Vostok 5: Longest solo spaceflight. 12 Valentina Tereshkova: 16 June 1963 Vostok 6: 19 June 1963 Vostok 6: First woman in space. 13 Joseph A. Walker: 19 July 1963 Flight 90, X-15: First winged craft in space. Reached altitude of 106 km. 14 Joseph A. Walker: 22 August 1963 Flight 91, X-15
The Vostok 1 mission was the first time anyone had journeyed into outer space and the first time anyone had entered into orbit. There were six Vostok flights in total, including the June, 1963 Vostok 6 mission flown by Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.