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Vostok Program
competition with the Mercury program
cosmonauts involved with program
Feoktistov, Konstantin P.
Gagarin, Yury Alekseyevich
Komarov, Vladimir M.
Tereshkova, Valentina
Titov, Gherman S.
Yegorov, Boris Borisovich
first human in space
other manned space programs
picture, Preparing Vostok for Launch
spacecraft designer
Sputnik, first Soviet space program
training of Vostok cosmonauts
Voskhod program, successor Soviet space program
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut and first human to fly in space. Gagarin flew into space aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961,...
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