Vostok 8K72 | Korabl-Sputnik (2)
Status: Failure | Launched: Jul 28, 1960 09:31 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Soviet Space Program (Government)
- Rocket: Vostok 8K72 — Vostok family
Mission
A test of the Vostok capsule carrying a pair of dogs. Unfortunately this failed after a failure of the booster.
- 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)
Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-07T01:00:56.820087+00:00.