On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...
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In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin climbed into Vostok 1 knowing that Soviet launches failed about half the time, then trusted ...
In this clip from the 1967 Soviet movie A Cruise to the Stars, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is shown training for his historic mission as engineers test various systems of the Vostok capsule. Accepting the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The former Soviet Union began manned space flight on April 12, 1961, when they launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth aboard ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Soviet space capsule sold for nearly $3 million at auction to a Russian businessman in New York, the 50th anniversary of Soviet ...
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