Vostok 1
Vostok 1: Advance Soviet crewed spacecraft and orbital operations
Vostok 1 was a Vostok human spaceflight flown April 12, 1961 with Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. The mission advanced crewed operations in Earth orbit. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin operated Vostok spacecraft for 1 hour, 48 minutes, carrying out first human spaceflight while flight controllers monitored the mission's specific spacecraft, payload, and crew objectives.
Mission dossier
Flight profile, locations, hardware, and outcome in the same reference format used throughout the archive.
Flight profile
- Launch
- April 12, 1961
- Landing
- April 12, 1961
- Duration
- 1 hour, 48 minutes
Places and recovery
- Destination
- Earth orbit
Mission record
- Vehicle
- Vostok spacecraft
- Crew members
- 1
- Program
- Vostok
- Mission type
- Crewed spaceflight mission
- Crew complement
- 1
- Outcome
- Completed
- Archive classification
- Human spaceflight
- Primary objective
- First human spaceflight
Assignment Manifest
The flight crew and the backup team assigned to train for this mission.
Prime crew
1 assignment
Mission Purpose
4 sources- Advance Soviet crewed spacecraft and orbital operations.
- Conduct the flight's planned engineering, research, and human-performance objectives.
- Return the spacecraft and crew safely to Earth.
- First human spaceflight.
Planned Flight Plan
4 sources- April 12, 1961
Vostok 1 begins
Vostok spacecraft was assigned to Advance Soviet crewed spacecraft and orbital operations.
- Primary phase
Conduct the flight's planned engineering, research, and human-performance objectives
Crew spacecraft: Vostok spacecraft; Mission destination: Earth orbit
- Mission objective
Return the spacecraft and crew safely to Earth
Vostok 1 operated within Earth orbit to pursue the program objective.
- April 12, 1961
Vostok 1 outcome
Vostok 1 concluded with the recorded status Completed: Vostok 1: Advance Soviet crewed spacecraft and orbital operations.
Mission Timeline
4 sources- April 12, 1961
Vostok 1 begins
Vostok spacecraft began Vostok 1 to Advance Soviet crewed spacecraft and orbital operations.
- Operations
Conduct the flight's planned engineering, research, and human-performance objectives
Crew spacecraft: Vostok spacecraft; Mission destination: Earth orbit
- Defining result
Vostok 1: Advance Soviet crewed spacecraft and orbital operations
Vostok 1 was a Vostok human spaceflight flown April 12, 1961 with Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
- April 12, 1961
Vostok 1: Completed
First human spaceflight.