A series of piloted spacecraft launched in the early 1960s by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A Vostok spacecraft was the first to carry a human into space.
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.
This dual-use design was crucial in gaining Communist Party support for the program. The basic Vostok design has remained in use for some forty years, gradually adapted for a range ...
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