Vostok

Flight Details

Vostok 1

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 04/13/61
• Flight Time: 000d 01h 48m
• Number of Orbits: 0001 orbits

Cosmonaut Crew:

• Yuri A. Gagarin

EVA's:

• None

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: The Soviets were the first to place a man in orbit. Gagarin was launched with an A-1 booster from the Baikanour Cosmodrome and completed one orbit of the Earth. The Vostok spacecraft was allowed to drift while in orbit. Gagarin's craft parachuted to Earth, landing in the Kazakhstan area of the Soviet Union.

Vostok 2

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 08/06/61
• Flight Time: 001d 01h 18m
• Number of Orbits: 0017 orbits

Cosmonaut Crew:

• Gherman S. Titov

EVA's:

• None

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: The Soviets took an even bigger lead over the United States by keeping Titov in orbit for a full day. He completed 17 orbits of the Earth. His recovery set the pattern for future Vostok missions. At an altitude of 23,000 feet, he ejected from the spacecraft and descended to the ground with a personal parachute.

Vostok 3

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 08/11/62
• Flight Time: 003d 22h 22m
• Number of Orbits: 0064 orbits

Cosmonaut Crew:

• Andrian G. Nikolayev

EVA's:

• None

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: This 4-day flight was conducted after an unmanned Cosmos test of similar duration. This and all future Vostok flights were sent into orbits that would decay within 10 days. The spacecrafts also carried enough consumables for up to 10 days.

Vostok 4

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 08/12/62
• Flight Time: 002d 22h 57m
• Number of Orbits: 0048orbits

Cosmonaut Crew:

• Pavel R. Popovich

EVA's:

• None

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: This flight was launched the day after Vostok 3. This was, therefore, the first time any country had more than one manned mission in progress at the same time. Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were in similar orbits and passed within 4 miles of each other. However, this could not be considered a true rendezvous, because of the large relative speed between the two spacecraft.

Vostok 5

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 06/14/63
• Flight Time: 004d 23h 06m
• Number of Orbits: 0081 orbits

Cosmonaut Crew:

• Valeri F. Bykovsky

EVA's:

• None

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: The flight of Vostok 5 followed a similar flight by an unmanned Cosmos. The duration of almost 5 days was to be the longest Soviet flight until Soyuz 9 in 1970.

Vostok 6

Mission Statistics:

• Date: 06/16/63
• Flight Time: 002d 22h 50m
• Number of Orbits: 0048 orbits

Cosmonaut Crew:

• Valentina V. Tereshkova

EVA's:

• None

Payloads:

• None

Mission Highlights: The Soviets achieved another space first by sending the first woman into space. Although Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 passed within 3 miles of each other, they were not in similar orbits and could not perform a rendezvous.

| Home | Intro | Ventures | Sea | Air | Space | SciFi | Racing | Movies | Art | Travel | Exit |

| Intro | X-15 | Mercury | Gemini | Apollo | Skylab | Apollo-Soyuz | Shuttle | Space Station |
| Vostok | Voskhod | Zond | Salyut/Mir | Soyuz | Buran | Shenzhou |
| Photo Album | Fallen Heroes | Unmanned Probes | Bibliography |

Last Updated: January 1, 2003