Vostok programme

Soviet human spaceflight project Vostok programmeВосток Космическая ПрограммаVostok Kosmicheskaya ProgrammaModel of Vostok spacecraft with the third stage of R-7Program overviewCountrySoviet UnionManagerSergei KorolevPurposePut the first Soviet Cosmonauts into low Earth orbit and return them safely.StatusCompletedProgramme historyDuration1961–1963First flightVostok 1Last flightVostok 6Launch siteBaikonur CosmodromeVehicle informationCrewed vehicleVostokCrew capacity1Launch vehicleVostok Part of a series of articles on theSoviet space program Soviet crewed lunar programs Luna program Human spaceflight programs Vostok Voskhod Soyuz Salyut Apollo–Soyuz (joint) Mir Zond (lunar Soyuz 7K-L1) N1-L3 (Moon landing) TMK (Mars flyby) Spiral Almaz / TKS Energia / Buran Space probes Sputnik program Kosmos Bion GLONASS Molniya Meteor Zenit Luna program Zond program Lunokhod program Mars program Phobos program Marsnik program Astron (spacecraft) Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories RELIKT-1 Venera Vega program Expendable launch vehicles Kosmos-3M Molniya-M Proton K Soyuz U Zenit 2 Energia Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M N1 R-7 Luna Molniya Polyot Soyuz L M U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputni