• Thumbnail for Vostok 3 and 4
    Vostok 3 (Russian: Восток-3, lit. 'Orient 3' or 'East 3') and Vostok 4 (Восток-4, 'Orient 4' or 'East 4') were Soviet space program flights in August 1962...
    18 KB (1,834 words) - 01:18, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok programme
    The Vostok programme (/ˈvɒstɒk, vɒˈstɒk/; Russian: Восток, IPA: [vɐˈstok], translated as "East") was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first...
    24 KB (2,793 words) - 04:42, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok Station
    Vostok Station (Russian: ста́нция Восто́к, romanized: stántsiya Vostók, pronounced [ˈstant͡sɨjə vɐˈstok], meaning "Station East") is a Russian research...
    28 KB (2,609 words) - 13:34, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok 5
    previous pair of Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 the two Vostok spacecraft came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link. Vostok 5 launched on 14...
    9 KB (833 words) - 01:17, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok 1
    Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, East or Orient) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok...
    53 KB (6,150 words) - 12:36, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Vostok
    Lake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, romanized: ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica's 675 known subglacial lakes. Lake Vostok is located at the southern...
    56 KB (5,890 words) - 17:53, 16 August 2024
  • The Vostok-K (Russian: Восток meaning "East"), GRAU index 8K72K was an expendable carrier rocket used by the Soviet Union for thirteen launches between...
    5 KB (327 words) - 16:48, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok (rocket family)
    Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and was designed for the human spaceflight...
    6 KB (458 words) - 18:41, 24 September 2024
  • in space by cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich during the Vostok 3 mission. "14 Minutes Until Start" was written in autumn 1960 by Vladimir...
    8 KB (907 words) - 17:19, 12 September 2024
  • 19″N 50°36′18.64″E / 55.3656083°N 50.6051778°E / 55.3656083; 50.6051778 Vostok Watch Makers, Inc. (Russian: Восток; literally meaning "East") is a Russian...
    6 KB (242 words) - 15:20, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok 2
    Vostok 2 (Russian: Восток-2, Orient 2 or East 2) was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6...
    19 KB (1,747 words) - 20:49, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok (spacecraft)
    Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") was a class of single-pilot crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The first human spaceflight was...
    10 KB (1,078 words) - 05:05, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valery Bykovsky
    Valery Bykovsky (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Born in Pavlovsky Posad, Russia...
    18 KB (1,950 words) - 07:39, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok 6
    Vostok 6 (Russian: Восток-6, Orient 6 or East 6) was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space. The spacecraft...
    10 KB (781 words) - 01:16, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andriyan Nikolayev
    Andriyan Nikolayev (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    Андриян Григорьевич Николаев; 5 September 1929 – 3 July 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly...
    12 KB (982 words) - 21:02, 16 September 2024
  • was derived from the earlier Vostok-K, with uprated engines. It was a member of the Vostok family of rockets. The Vostok-2 switched to the newer 8K74...
    8 KB (282 words) - 16:35, 17 September 2024
  • presumably first backup for Vostok 2 for Titov in April and August 1961 respectively. For the dual launches of Vostok 3 and Vostok 4, Nelyubov was again chosen...
    6 KB (543 words) - 11:10, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Race
    Space Race (section Vostok)
    Vostok 3 and Vostok 4, in essentially identical orbits, on August 11 and 12, 1962. The two spacecraft came within approximately 6.5 kilometers (3.5...
    147 KB (18,196 words) - 21:52, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of longest spaceflights
    history.nasa.gov. "Vostok 3". www.astronautix.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-05. "Vostok 2". www.astronautix...
    11 KB (530 words) - 22:34, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercury-Atlas 8
    Space Race, though well behind the several-day record set by the Soviet Vostok 3 earlier in the year. It confirmed the Mercury spacecraft's durability ahead...
    42 KB (5,691 words) - 06:05, 28 July 2024
  • The Vostok-L (Russian: Восток meaning "East"), GRAU index 8K72 was a rocket used by the Soviet Union to conduct several early tests of the Vostok spacecraft...
    3 KB (201 words) - 16:42, 17 September 2024
  • Vostok and Voskhod were two spacecraft flown by the Soviet Union. Between 1960 and 1966, Vostok and Voskhod performed 11 successful, 2 partially successful...
    3 KB (57 words) - 23:19, 23 January 2023
  • missions conducted by the Soviet space program. These missions belong to the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz space programs. The first patch from the Soviet Space...
    28 KB (302 words) - 02:07, 28 September 2024
  • spaceflight, Vostok 3 and Vostok 4. 1962: First probe launched to Mars, Mars 1. 1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6. 1964: First...
    63 KB (7,148 words) - 05:13, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vostok Island
    Vostok Island is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific Ocean, part of the Line Islands belonging to Kiribati. Other names for the island include...
    10 KB (1,007 words) - 05:44, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sergei Korolev
    careers. On August 11, 1962, Korolyov launched the first group flight with Vostok 3 and 4 (with Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich). The two spacecraft...
    73 KB (9,435 words) - 02:10, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of cosmonauts
    Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3 Ivan Anikeyev (1933–1992) — Expelled from Vostok program; no flights. Oleg Artemyev* — Soyuz TMA-12M...
    29 KB (2,573 words) - 07:33, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yuri Gagarin
    Yuri Gagarin (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight...
    105 KB (10,074 words) - 01:07, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federation Tower
    Business Center in Moscow, Russia. The two skyscrapers are named Tower East or Vostok (Russian: Восток; literally means "East") and Tower West or Zapad (Russian:...
    19 KB (2,152 words) - 08:37, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of space travellers by first flight
    flight of Vostok-3 and Vostok-4". Russian Space Web. Retrieved 16 December 2017. "Vostok 3". Spacefacts. Retrieved 16 December 2017. "Vostok 4". Spacefacts...
    154 KB (4,068 words) - 05:47, 29 September 2024