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| | Vostok programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A series of prototype Vostoks, including at least five with animals and some with a test dummy aboard, were used to qualify the spacecraft for human flight. |
 | | Vostok 3 - August 11, 1962, and Vostok 4 - August 12, 1962. |
 | | Another seven Vostok flights were originally planned, going through to April of 1966, but these were cancelled and the components recycled into the Voskhod programme, which was intended more towards achieving Soviet "firsts" in space. |
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