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Vostok spacecraft

Single-person Soviet orbital spacecraft

Vostok spacecraft supported Vostok 3 through Vostok 1 in the Vostok program. Vostok 3 was a Vostok human spaceflight flown August 11-August 15, 1962 with Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev. The vehicle record is classified as Single-person Soviet orbital spacecraft, recorded with retired status.

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Vehicle record

Flights: Six crewed missions
First flight: Vostok 1, April 12, 1961
Final flight: Vostok 6, June 16-19, 1963
Crew capacity: One
Recovery: Cosmonaut ejected and landed separately by parachute

Sources

NASA: Soviets Select Their First Cosmonauts NASA: Early Space Stations