The Vostok programme (/ˈvɒstɒk, vɒˈstɒk/ VOST-ok, vost-OK; Russian: Восток, IPA: [vɐˈstok] , lit. 'East') was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put...
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spaceflight programme. This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) and the first crewed spacecraft (Vostok) in human history...
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dictionary. Vostok (Russian: Восток) refers to east in Russian but may also refer to: Vostok programme, Soviet human spaceflight project Vostok (spacecraft)...
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Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, lit. 'East' or 'Orient') was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history...
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the Vostok programme and a recycling of components left over from that programme's cancellation following its first six flights. The Voskhod programme was...
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the Voskhod program. 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...
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spaceflight was accomplished with Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The Vostok programme made six crewed spaceflights from...
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of the Vostok programme were launched using Vostok-K rockets. The first two Zenit reconnaissance satellites were also launched with the Vostok-K, but...
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"John Doe") was the name given to a mannequin used in testing the Soviet Vostok spacecraft in preparation for its crewed missions. Ivan Ivanovich was made...
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(rocket family) Sputnik (rocket) Luna (rocket) Vostok (rocket family) Vostok-2 (rocket) Vostok-2M Vostok-K Vostok-L Polyot (rocket) Voskhod (rocket) Molniya...
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Vostok Europe is a Lithuanian watch brand owned by Koliz Vostok and manufactured in Vilnius since 2003. The company Koliz Vostok was founded in 2003 by...
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third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok (1961–1963) and Voskhod (1964–1965) programmes. The programme consists of the Soyuz capsule and...
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Yuri Gagarin (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight...
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sent more Vostok missions than what Russian officials said, which are excluded from this list. Soviet space program Voskhod programme Vostok programme...
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Korabl-Sputnik 5 (category Vostok program)
5) or Vostok-3KA No.2, also known as Sputnik 10 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961, as part of the Vostok programme. It was...
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Voroshilov, Kliment Voskhod (spacecraft) Vostok programme Vostok 1 Vostok 2 Vostok 3 Vostok 4 Vostok 5 Vostok 6 Vostok (spacecraft) Return to Table of Contents...
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Valentina Tereshkova (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut. Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she...
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Soviet space program (redirect from Soviet space programme)
Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, Vostok program. 1961: First person to spend over 24 hours in space Gherman Titov, Vostok 2 (also first person to sleep...
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Valery Bykovsky (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Born in Pavlovsky Posad, Russia...
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weapons program Sputnik 1 artificial Earth satellite Typhoon submarine Vostok programme human spaceflight project Nuclear weapons program (was never completed)...
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Korabl-Sputnik 1 (category Vostok program)
4 in the West, was the first test flight of the Soviet Vostok programme, and the first Vostok spacecraft. It was launched on May 15, 1960. Though Korabl-Sputnik...
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Voskhod (spacecraft) (section Vostok 3KV (1964))
for human spaceflight as part of the Voskhod programme. It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft. Voskhod 1 was used for a three-man...
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The Soyuz/Vostok, also known as just Soyuz or Vostok, or by its GRAU index, 11A510 was an interim expendable carrier rocket used by the Soviet Union in...
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The Salyut programme (Russian: Салют, IPA: [sɐˈlʲut], meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet...
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coordinates) The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the "VKK Space Orbiter programme" (Russian: ВКК «Воздушно-Космический...
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History of spaceflight (section Vostok)
The Vostok Programme was the first Soviet spaceflight project to put Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. The programme carried...
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Space capsule (section Vostok)
9 g-force. The Vostok design was modified to permit carrying multi-cosmonaut crews, and flown as two flights of the Voskhod programme. The cylindrical...
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are the recovered capsule from the Vostok 1 mission with which Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the Vostok 6 capsule in which Valentina Tereshkova...
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German space programme is the set of projects funded by the government of Germany for the exploration and use of outer space. The space programme is run by...
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of Ivan IV (the Terrible) Ivan Ivanovich (Vostok programme), a mannequin used in testing the Russian Vostok spacecraft in preparation for its crewed missions...
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