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Vostok 1 - 12 April 1961

Vostok 2 - 06 August 1961

Vostok 3: August 11, 1962, 08:24 UTC
Vostok 3: August 15, 1962, 06:52 UTC

Vostok 4 - 12 August 1962

Vostok 5 14 Jun 1963 – 19 Jun 1963
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Vostok-3KA No.7

Vostok 50 Year Anniversary [2]

Vostok 6 - 16 June 1963 [2]

Yuri Gagarin Vostok 1 Flight 1961

Russian Vostok

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Vostok 4 : August 12, 1962, 08:02:33 UTC
Vostok 4: August 15, 1962, 06:59 UTC

Vostok 3: 3KA No.5
Vostok 4: 3KA No. 6

Vostok 3: Andriyan Nikolayev
Vostok 4: Pavel Popovich

August 6, 1961, 06:00 UTC
August 7, 1961, 07:18 UTC

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Gherman Titov

Vostok 50 Year Anniversary

April 12, 1961, 06:07 UTC
Rocket Vostok-K 8K72K No.3
April 12, 1961, 07:55 UTC

Vostok 1 - Yuri Gagarin

Vostok 4 launched one day after Vostok 3 and entered a similar orbit very close to Vostok 3. The dual mission marked the first time two human space missions were in orbit at the same time. The two craft passed as close as 6.5 km from each other, allowing the two cosmonauts to perform the first-ever two-way communication between spacecraft in orbit. The mission, along with Vostok 3, was the first to seriously study the effects of microgravity on the body (including on sleep) by studying differing reactions of two cosmonauts in two spacecraft flying in similar orbits. The Vostok craft was modified to allow collection of more flight data. The mission was brought to an early end when mission control thought Popovich gave them the codeword requesting to come home immediately. He had in fact not said the codeword.

Pavel Popovich

Vostok 5 was a joint mission of the Soviet space program together with Vostok 6; as with the previous pair of Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 the two Vostok spacecraft came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link.

The first space patch was flown by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on the Vostok 6 mission in 1963; however, that was hidden from public view by the bright orange coverall that was part of the space suit at the time. At the start of the manned space age, as a rule, astronauts were pilots from a military background. These pilots took the tradition of military shoulder patches with them; most US space missions have had dedicated designs, and since the mid-1980s most Soviet/Russian flights also featured space patches.

Vostok 3 - 11 August 1962 [2&3]

Vostok 6
16 June 1963, 09:29:52 UTC
19 June 1963, 08:20 UTC
Vostok-3KA No.8
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Valentina Tereshkova

was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space

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The first man in space?

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