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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 Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M Tsyklon 2 3 Notable figures Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Friedrich Zander Mstislav Keldysh Sergei Korolev Laika Yuri Gagarin Alexander Kemurdzhian Valentina Tereshkova Alexei Leonov Konstantin Feoktistov Mikhail Tikhonravov Mikhail Yangel Valentin Glushko Vladimir Chelomey Kerim Kerimov Vasily Mishin Boris Chertok Cosmonauts List of Soviet and Russian cosmonauts vte Part of a series onSpaceflight History History of spaceflight Space Race Timeline of spaceflight Space probes Lunar missions Mars missions Applications Communications Earth observation Exploration Espionage Military Navigation Colonization Habitation Exploration Telescopes Tourism Spacecraft Robotic spacecraft Satellite Space probe Cargo spacecraft Crewed spacecraft Apollo Lunar Module Space capsules Space Shuttle Space stations Spaceplanes Vostok Space launch Spaceport Launch pad Expendable and reusable launch vehicles Escape velocity Non-rocket spacelaunch Spaceflight types Sub-orbital Orbital Interplanetary Interstellar Intergalactic List of space organizations Space agencies Space forces Companies Spaceflight portalvte The Vostok programme (/ˈvɒstɒk, vɒˈstɒk/ VOST-ok, vost-OK; Russian: Восток, IPA: [vɐˈstok] ⓘ, lit.

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