Vostok
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Key facts
- Manufacturer
- OKB-1
- Designer
- Sergei Korolev
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Operator
- OKB-1
- Applications
- Single-pilot Earth orbit
- Dimensions
- 2.43 meters (8.0 ft) diameter x 4.55 meters (14.9 ft) long
- Regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Status
- Retired
- Maiden launch
- 15 May 1960, Korabl-Sputnik 1
- Last launch
- 16 June 1963, Vostok 6
- Derivatives
- Foton , Voskhod , Zenit , Bion
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- Vostok spacecraft.jpg
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- Vostok program
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Vostok (Russian: Восток, lit. 'East') was a class of single-pilot crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The first human spaceflight was accomplished with Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
The Vostok programme made six crewed spaceflights from 1961 through 1963. This was followed in 1964 and 1965 by two flights of Vostok spacecraft modified for up to three pilots, identified as Voskhod. By the late 1960s, these were replaced with Soyuz spacecraft, which are still used as of 2025.
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