Vostok programme

The Vostok programme (Восто́к, translated as "East") was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth orbit for the first time. The programme developed the Vostok spacecraft from the Zenit spy satellite project and adapted the Vostok rocket from an existing ICBM design. Just before the first release of the name Vostok to the press, it was a classified word.

Missions

Prototypes

A series of prototype Vostoks, including at least five with animals and some with test dummies aboard, were used to qualify the spacecraft for human flight. Dates given are dates of spacecraft launch. [cite web |url=http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Vostok/Vostok.php |title=Vostok - the World's First Spaceship |last=Christy |first=Robert]

Vostok manned flights

Planned missions

Another seven Vostok flights (Vostok 7 to 13) were originally planned, going through to April of 1966, but these were cancelled and the components recycled into the Voskhod programme, which was intended to achieve more Soviet firsts in space.

ee also

*Vostok spacecraft
*Vostok rocket
*Voskhod programme
*Sergei Korolev

References

External links

* [http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Vostok/Vostok.php Korabl & Vostok Diary]