Here’s how it works. The Vostok program was a Soviet space program project that ran from 1960 to 1963 and achieved many spectacular milestones in spaceflight, including placing the first man in ...

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A Vostok spacecraft mounted on the booster upper stage with the Buran shuttle in the background On the way to the launch pad, Gagarin asked for the bus to stop, so he could relieve himself on one ...

Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:07 a.m ...

He would become a star after the launch of the Vostok space capsule on April 12, 1961. Gagarin’s physique was perfect for the risky mission – the cosmonaut flying the Vostok could not weight ...

Suddenly man’s centuries-old dream of space travel had been transformed into reality. Vostok was not an unmanned satellite-impersonal, cold, emotionally empty. It had carried an ordinary man ...

Vostok 2 launched Aug. 6, 1961 and carried Gherman Titov into space, making him the first person to spend a full day in space. On Aug. 11, 1962, Vostok 3 sent Andriyan Nikolayev to orbit.

This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and ...

File photo: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Vostok spacecraft's landing capsule is seen on display at Moscow's Museum of Cosmonautics on April 9, 2021. File photo: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's ...

Could Mercury be that much smaller than the Soviet spacecraft?’ And that was indeed the case. The Vostok spacecraft weighed over 10,000 pounds. The Mercury spacecraft, with the escape tower ...

For eons, humanity has dreamt of exploring the cosmos. Sixty-five years ago, we finally achieved that dream. Some space missions have revealed how far the human race can go, while others dragged ...