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On April 12, 1961; Russian Yuri Gagarin went into space on board the Vostok 3KA-3, (Vostok 1), and made an orbital flight around the Earth.
On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 -- the first manned spacecraft
Vostok 1 was the first human spaceflight. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961, taking into space Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union.
Vostok is the Russian word for "EAST." Likely because spacecraft tend to be launched towards the East, to take advantage of the Earth's rotation in an eastward direction.
the speed of the vostok was 2000000000mph
On April 12, 1961; Russian Yuri Gagarin went into space on board the Vostok 3KA-3, (Vostok 1), and made an orbital flight around the Earth.
On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 -- the first manned spacecraft
Sputnik was launched by the Russians October 4, 1957 the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) in 1961 (also by the russians)
Vostok 1 was the first human spaceflight. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961, taking into space Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union.
On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into space aboard Vostok 1, making him the first human to go into space.
Vostok is the Russian word for "EAST." Likely because spacecraft tend to be launched towards the East, to take advantage of the Earth's rotation in an eastward direction.
the speed of the vostok was 2000000000mph
Russian named Major Yuri Gargarin, Vostok Rocket, 1961.
On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 -- the first manned spacecraft
The space craft the 1st woman, Valantina Tereshkove was in when she went to space was the Vostok 3KA space craft.The launch vehicle was the Vostok 8K672K rocket.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a soviet pilot, was the first human to be launched into space. His Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit around the earth in April of 1961.
"Vostok 1" is the designation given to the orbital capsule that carried Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space. On April 12, 1961, Gagarin became the first human being in space, making a single orbit of the globe in 1 hour and 48 minutes. The spacecraft was designed by the Soviet rocket scientists Sergey Korolyov (Sergei Korolev) and Kerim Kerimov. The rocket carrying Vostok 1 was launched from the space center at Tyura-Tam (now Baikonur), in the Kazakhstan republic.