The name of the first Russian spacecraft was Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957.
Sputnik 1 was a Russian satellite.
Apollo is the name of the American spacecraft and Soyuz is the name of the Russian spacecraft.
Sputnik means "fellow traveler" in Russian.
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Soyuz.
Some of the Russian space crafts are Soyuz, Progress, and Vostok. Soyuz is used for crewed missions to the International Space Station, Progress is an unmanned cargo spacecraft, and Vostok was the spacecraft that carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
Spacecraft that landed on Mars in the 1970s
sputnik 1
"The first rocket was the Sputnik...." Here we go again... NO It Wasn't! The first Spacecraft with a human to go into space was the Russian Satellite called 'Vostok', or 'Vostok 3KA'. 'Sputink', is the Russian word for 'Satellite', it was NOT the Name of the spacecraft. imagine if every Russian called 'Apollo 18' ... 'Satilite' with a heavy russian accent... DRrr Not. It Also was not the first spacecraft! the Russians launched a bunch of Dogs and crap up there first... there were many spacecrafts that went up before 'Vostok'.
The Russian unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon was Luna 2. It was the first human-made object to reach the lunar surface in 1959.
The logo on Russian rockets typically features the word "Roscosmos" in Cyrillic letters along with an image of a stylized blue globe and white rocket. Roscosmos is the Russian space agency responsible for space exploration and research.