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  2. Vostok 1 - Wikipedia

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    Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, 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 around the Earth.

  3. Vostok (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Vostok programme - Wikipedia

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    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 banker, paid $2,882,500 for the capsule.

  5. Gagarin's Start - Wikipedia

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    The launchpad for the world's first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961, the site was referred to as Site No.1 (Площадка №1, Ploshchadka No. 1) as the first one of its kind. It is also sometimes referred to as NIIP-5 LC1, Baikonur LC1, LC-1/5, LC-1, Pad 1/5 or GIK-5 LC1. At Baikonur, site numbers refer to ...

  6. Vostok (rocket family) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of Vostok and Voskhod missions - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics - Wikipedia

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    1.7 Layout of descent device Vostok-1 (first with a man aboard) 1.8 Space program. ... is a technology museum in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, dedicated to Serhiy Korolyov.

  9. Vostok - Wikipedia

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    Vostok programme, Soviet human spaceflight project; Vostok (spacecraft), a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union; Vostok (rocket family), family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme; Vostok (crater), a crater explored by the Mars rover Opportunity; Vostok 1, the first human ...