Vostok programme Vostok programme Ivan Ivanovich was the name given to a mannequin used in testing the Russian Vostok spacecraft in preparation for its manned missions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ivan Ivanovich"
(Sputnik 10) *Mass: 4,695 kg ...more on Wikipedia about "Sputnik 10"
Sputnik 4 was a USSR satellite, part of the Sputnik program and a test-flight of the Vostok spacecraft that would be used for the first human spaceflight. It was launched on May 15, 1960. It re-entered the atmosphere on or about September 5, 1962. A piece was found in the middle of a major street in Manitowoc, Wisconsin ( United States). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sputnik 4"
Sputnik 5 was a USSR artificial Earth satellite from the Sputnik space program, launched on August 19 1960. It was in fact the second test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, and therefore it is sometimes called Korabl-Sputnik 2 ("korabl" is Russian for "ship"). It was the first one to return animals from orbit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sputnik 5"
*Mass: 4,563 kg ...more on Wikipedia about "Sputnik 6"
(Sputnik 9) *Mass: 4,700 kg ...more on Wikipedia about "Sputnik 9"
Vostok 1 was the first manned space mission. Launched on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 took Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, the first time anyone had ever journeyed beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the first time anyone went into orbit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok 1"
Vostok 2 was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day in order to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok 2"
Vostok 3 was a mission in the Soviet space program. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok 3"
Vostok 4 was a mission in the Soviet space program. It was launched a day after Vostok 3 with cosmonaut Pavel Popovich on board - the first time that more than one manned spacecraft was in orbit at the same time. The two capsules came within 5 km of one another and ship-to-ship radio contact was established. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok 4"
Like Vostoks 3 and 4, Vostok 5 and 6 were joint missions in the Soviet space program, and like the previous pair, came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok 5"
A joint flight with Vostok 5, Vostok 6 carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. (See also: List of firsts) This was to some degree a publicity exercise on the part of Soviet government. The chief designer for the Vostok program was Sergei Korolev, Data was collected on the female body's reaction to spaceflight. Like other cosmonauts on Vostok missions, she maintained a flight log, took photographs, and manually oriented the spacecraft. Her photographs of the horizon from space were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere. The mission was originally conceived as being a joint mission with two Vostoks each carrying a female cosmonaut, but this changed as the Vostok program experienced cutbacks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok 6"
The Vostok programme (Восто́к, translated as "East") was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth orbit for the first time. The programme developed the Vostok spacecraft from the Zenit photo-reconnaissance project and adapted the Vostok rocket from an existing ICBM design. Just before the first release of the name Vostok to the press, it was a classified word. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok programme"
The Vostok rocket (Russian Восток, translated as "East") was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for other satellite launches. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok rocket"
The Vostok (Восток, translated as "East") was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vostok spacecraft"
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