Vostok 8K72 | Korabl'-Sputnik-1

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Soviet Space Program (Government)
• Rocket: Vostok 8K72 — Vostok family

Mission

Korabl-Sputnik was the first test flight of the Vostok programme and the first Vostok spacecraft.

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

• Pad: 1/5
• Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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Program

• Vostok — The Vostok programme was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succeeded in placing the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin, in a single orbit in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. (Wikipedia)