Voskhod programme

Voskhod 1 ( ) was the first spaceflight to carry more than one person into space and the first flight without space suits. The Soviet mission was specifically planned to beat the US Gemini program to this milestone. As a further propaganda coup, the spacecraft was claimed to have carried into orbit a fragment of a communard banner from the Paris Commune of 1871. ...more on Wikipedia about "Voskhod 1"

Voskhod 2 was a Soviet manned space mission. It set another space milestone as one of the cosmonauts on board became the first person to " walk in space". ...more on Wikipedia about "Voskhod 2"

The Voskhod programme ( , translated as "Sunrise") was a Soviet human spaceflight project. It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok programme using the Voskhod spacecraft and rocket. ...more on Wikipedia about "Voskhod programme"

The Voskhod rocket (Russian: Восход, translated as "Sunrise") was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for launching Zenit reconnaissance satellites. It combined the R-7 with an upper stage that had been originally designed to launch interplanetary probes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Voskhod rocket"

The Voskhod (Восход, translated as "Sunrise") was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight (see Voskhod programme). It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Voskhod spacecraft"

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