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  Vostok 6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A joint flight with Vostok 5, Vostok 6 carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
The cheif designer for the Vostok program was Sergei Korolev, Data was collected on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.
Her photographs of the horizon from space were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere.
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 Vostok programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The programme developed the Vostok spacecraft from the Zenit photo-reconnaissance project and adapted the Vostok rocket from an existing ICBM design.
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.
Another seven Vostok flights were originally planned, going through to the April of 1966, but these were cancelled as the race to the moon intensified.
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 MSN Encarta - Valentina Tereshkova
Tereshkova was born to a peasant family in the Yaroslavl’ region of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
The flight targeted for the first woman was the second dual flight in the Vostok program, meaning a mission on which two craft would be in orbit at the same time, and ground control would maneuver them to within 5 km (3 mi) of each other.
Vostok 5, with cosmonaut Valeriy Bykovsky on board, launched on June 14, 1963.
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 The Soviet manned Space Program (Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz and Salyut missions)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The ships 3 Vostok and Vostok 4 were sent to both the 11 of August of 1962, and orbited both within the field of vision of the other.
Vostok 5 took off the 14 of June of 1963, and was followed two days later by Vostok 6, manned by the first woman astronaut, Valentin V. Tereshkova, Both capsules got to locate themselves to less than 5 kilometers of distance.
The 11 of October of 1969, Kubasov and the Shonins flew in the Soyuz 6.
intercosmos.iespana.es /english/astronautics/astr_urss.htm   (3636 words)

  
 Vostok 5
Vostok flight plans were drastically curtailed at a meeting of the Presidium of the Communist Party.
The Vostok 5 and 6 launch vehicles and spacecraft are both in the MIK assembly wall.
Vostok 5 landed at 11:06 GMT at 53:24 N 67:37 E. 1963 Jun 20 - Vostok 5/6 cosmonaut debriefing Spacecraft: Vostok 3KA.
www.astronautix.com /flights/vostok5.htm   (7490 words)

  
 Vostok 8K72K
The first such flight, where Vostok capsules were launched one day apart, coming within a few kilometers of each other at the orbital insertion of the second spacecraft.
Vostok 3 studied man's ability to function under conditions of weightlessness; conducted scientific observations; furthered improvement of space ship systems, communications, guidance and landing.
Vostok 5 was originally planned to go for a record eight days.
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 Vostok 6 Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Communications between Earth and Vostok 6 were sometimes difficult, but this was probably because of faulty equipment and not, as it was initially thought, because she had selected the wrong channel.
Vostok was always portrayed as a roomy spacecraft by the media, but in truth it was cramped and the cosmonaut had to remain in (or floating slightly above) their seat, wearing the full pressure garment and helmet in the event of a sudden cabin decompression.
At 4 miles altitude, she activated the seat ejection system and separated from the capsule to descend by parachute, leaving the empty Vostok 6 to follow a pre-programmed automatic parachute descent and landing (as was the case for all 6 Vostok missions).
www.astroinfoservice.co.uk /html/vostok_6_report.html   (1854 words)

  
 Index (Space Travel History)
Vostok 1 was launched on April 12, 1961, it carried aboard the first human to space Yuri A. Gagarin.
Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961; it also as Vostok 1 carried aboard a cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov.
Vostok 3 and 4 were launched with in a day of each other on August 11 and 12, 1962 and fell into similar orbits.
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 Vostok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vostok was the first manned spacecraft in the history of Astronautics when in 1961 Yuri A. Gagarin became the first man to go in Space.
Vostok design demonstrated highly flexible because from Vostok was derived Voskhod and a whole series of unmanned capsules (Foton, Resurs, Bion, Efir e Nika) still in use today for scientific research in Microgravity.
Vostok wasn’t equipped with landing retrorockets and it forced the Cosmonaut to leave the capsule (after the reentry) with an ejection seat at era a 7.000 meters of height.
www.marscenter.it /eng/veicolicapsulevostok.htm   (219 words)

  
 Vostok
6.63 TB Vostok 6 (Vostok-3KA #8) 35 10 Vostok-2 E15000-04 10.
4.66 TB Kosmos 115 (Zenit-2 #37) 66 39 Vostok-2 N15001-01 6.
5.67 TB Kosmos 157 (Zenit-2 #49) 80 3 Vostok-2M 24.10.67 Pl Kosmos 184 (Meteor-1 #6) 81 4 Vostok-2M 14.
www.skyrocket.de /space/doc_lau/vostok.htm   (1628 words)

  
 Vostok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vostok re-enters the atmosphere - Gagarin's ride is rough as the instrument unit and the cabin remain joined by a cable until re-entry heating burns it through
Vostok 4 (3KA-6) launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Vostok rocket into 165 x 222 kilometre orbit at 65.0 degrees inclination with cosmonaut Pavel Popovich aboard - it's orbit is close to that of Vostok 3
Approx time - Vostok 6 passes 5 kilometres from Vostok 5 but their orbits are angled with respect to each other so the two spacecraft move rapidly apart - there is radio contact between the two cosmonauts
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Vostok/Vostok.htm   (610 words)

  
 Spacecraft - Vostok
Modified Vostok spacecraft with addition of inflatable airlock for exit of one cosmonaut for spacewalk.
The Vostok spacecraft was the work of a team of scientists and engineers led by the Soviet Union's pioneer aerospace engineer, Segei P. Korolev.
Instrumentation on the Vostoks was rudimentary in the extreme.
www.braeunig.us /space/specs/vostok.htm   (754 words)

  
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The Vostok capsule weighed-in at 4.7 tons, had a length of 14.4 ft, and a diameter of 7.9 ft. There were two sub-units, the reentry module, and the instrument/retrorocket module.
Vostok 2 was originally planned as a three orbit mission, but to increase its PR value, Khrushchev directed it to last an entire day.
Vostok 6 was the final mission for this capsule.
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 33 rpm (Swinghammer)
Perhaps I'd feel comfier, since I like VOSTOK 6 a lot, comparing it to Gong's YOU, or Jon Anderson's OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW; and indeed, it wouldn't shock me if those were influences, but I'd be ducking the obvious.
Until they start sounding more like snake-dancers; none of my descriptions hold for more than a couple of minutes on VOSTOK 6, which is one of its strengths, along with the fact that every transition is smooth.
By several stages (organ, a brief hint of what does not turn out to be country, a noise which probably isn't a robot razzing you), we reach the end of part one: the opening fanfare is commericialized into TV-news music, the rhythm hints at samba, and the channel changes in the background a few times.
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 Lovaura.com Space Memorabilia - Vostok & Voskhod.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Measures 6" x 4" and features Yuri Gagarin in his spacesuit with a background of the Vostok 1 launch and earth from space.
These are the official Soviet postal stamps issued in 1983 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Vostok 6 mission which saw Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova become the first woman in space.
Belyayev was prime crew to fly Vostok 8 mission early 1963 which was to be a high altitude manned mission to the lower Van Allen radiation belt but the mission was cancelled.
www.lovaura.com /vostok.htm   (866 words)

  
 Vostok 6
Yerkina was excluded from Vostok 6 due to her performance during the three day test in the hot mock-up.
Vostok 6 landed at 08:20 GMT at 53:16 N 80:27 E. 1963 Jun 20 - Vostok 5/6 cosmonaut debriefing Spacecraft: Vostok 3KA.
1963 Sep 6 - Tereshkova accused of a scandal in Gorkiy.
www.astronautix.com /flights/vostok6.htm   (7300 words)

  
 Chronology of Manned Space Missions
Soyuz 6, 7, and 8 were launched within a day of each other, putting a total of seven cosmonauts in space at the same time for a joint mission.
The new guidance system failed on approach to Salyut 6, but the astronauts were able to dock at Salyut 6 and spend three days with their fellow comrades.
Salyut 6 had well exceeded its design lifetime, but the cosmonauts spent 74 days there performing experiments and having guests (fellow cosmonauts, of course).
www.windows.ucar.edu /cgi-bin/tour_def/space_missions/manned_table.html   (3072 words)

  
 Oregon L5 Society - Vostok Model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(Vostok is Russian for East.) Vostok I was launched from the secret Russian space center at Baikonur, Russia, and made one orbit of the earth before landing near Smelovaka.
At the conclusion of 64 orbits, Vostok 3 descended into the earth's atmosphere, followed by Vostok 4 after its 48th orbit.
Unlike the American spacecraft, Vostok had no attitude control system which would assist in placing the capsule forward to withstand the searing heat of re-entry, the sphere was designed with the weight off center.
www.oregonl5.org /l5vostok.html   (498 words)

  
 swinghammer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The stylings of Swinghammer’s Vostok 6 interestingly echo the rise and fall of the Russian space program—a shaky if ambitious start, some under-appreciated triumphs, and a final, poignant presence.
Vostok 6 is an arty if not always artful theme record about the life and loves of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 orbitted the earth for three days in a craft code-named Seagull, and later fell in love with her cosmonaut comrade Andrian “Velvet Eyes” Nikolayev.
While some of Vostok 6’s elements are as creaky as the MIR space station, as a whole, Swinghammer shows he is in enough control of his mission of love and commemoration to more than merit a listen from those seeking a specialized theme-trance experience.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Vostok 6 - Kurt Swinghammer at Epinions.com
Vostok 6 starts out, at "6-16-63" (the satellite's launch date), with trumpet fanfare and an evolving drone.
"Vostok 6" is introduced after an actual pause of a half-second.
A small but real part of Vostok's sense of wonder, I think, is that like the aerospace technology of 40 years ago, it doesn't seem that out-of-reach to accomplish.
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 Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space - Vostok Spacecraft -
The Vostok spacecraft was used to launch Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
In comparison to the later developed Soyuz Spacecraft, Vostok had no maneuvering capabilities and required cosmonauts to parachute to safety at the end of a flight.
In 1964 the rest of the Vostok missions were cancelled.
www.aerospaceguide.net /humansinspace/vostok.html   (322 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The pilot of Vostok 6 was Valentina V.
The Russian Voskhod was an adaptation of the Vostok spacecraft modified to accommodate two and three cosmonauts.
Vostok 3 and 4, launched separately, came to within 6 km (4 mi) of each other in space before drifting apart.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/space/humanspaceflight.html   (3475 words)

  
 Condon Report, Sec 3, Chapter 6 -- Astronaut Visual Obsrervations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For example on Gemini 7, the command pilot in the left seat was able to identify stars to magnitude 6 during satellite night, while the pilot in the right seat was limited to magnitude 4.4.
Table 6 shows the masses of objects for given apparent stellar magnitudes and varying periods of luminosity, calculated on the assumption that all the orbital kinetic energy of the object is
A favorable factor is that the zodiacal band gets very rapidly brighter as it is observed as close as some 5° or to the sun, as is possible from spacecraft in contrast with the twilight restriction on the earth's surface of about 25°.
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 Did you know? 636 - LOL Facts - Web Software & Hosting
Her enthusiasm for skydiving brought her to the attention of the Soviet space program, which sought to put a woman in space in the early 1960s as a means of achieving another "space first" before the United States.
As an accomplished parachutist, Tereshkova was well equipped to handle one of the most challenging procedures of a Vostok space flight: the mandatory ejection from the capsule at about 20,000 feet during reentry.
In February 1962, she was selected along with three other woman parachutists and a female pilot to begin intensive training to become a cosmonaut.
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 Apollo to the Moon -- Reference Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vostok 2 carries cosmonaut Gherman Titov in the Soviet Union's second human space mission, completing 17 orbits in a little over a day.
The Soviet Vostok 4 comes within 4.9 km of Vostok 3 during Earth orbit, as the second part of the first dual launch mission.
Stafford, rendezvoused with Gemini 7 in orbit on Dec. 15, 1965.
www.nasm.si.edu /exhibitions/attm/nojs/timeline.html   (3562 words)

  
 Vostok 6
Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 were a dual flight, much like the Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 flights nearly a year before.
Vostok 6 would land over 2 and half hours before Vostok 5.
There would not be another one for 19 years.
www.worldspaceflight.com /russia/vostok/vostok6.htm   (62 words)

  
 Chapter 14 -- Vostok and Mercury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Titov returned safely to Earth in Vostok 2 and was able to eject from the spacecraft and ride his parachute without further problems.
After Titov's mandatory appearance on Lenin's tomb, the cosmonaut was whisked away to the hospital to undergo a number of tests to determine why he was sick.
Bykovsky's flight has been overlooked in history because on June 16, 1963 he was joined in space by Vostok 6.
www.space.edu /projects/book/chapter14.html   (1820 words)

  
 Russia's early manned space flight projects (1945-1963)
The reentry container, which returned live animals to Earth after the test flights of the Vostok spacecraft.
The mockup of the 1st stage engine which propelled the Vostok rocket.
The Vostok spacecraft reentry capsule and the protective pressure suit.
www.russianspaceweb.com /spacecraft_manned_first.html   (283 words)

  
 Gunboards - Vostok 6,5x54R   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
My objective would be the Vostok olympic rifle in 6,5x54R.
barrel in the adequate profile and match it to a specced MN action to reproduce the performance of the original Vostok rifle.
Posted - 09/30/2003 : 7:47:10 PM I have a Vostok 6.5x54r and shoot it regularly.
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 Tereshkova and Vostok 6 - collectSPACE: Messages
When I began researching this subject several years ago, I quickly gained the impression that the flight of a woman cosmonaut on Vostok VI had caught the rest of the world, and especially America by complete surprise.
After the launch of Vostok V on 14th June, the speculation reaches it’s peak, and all the major news agencies and newspapers have their own version of what would happen next.
One of the fun things is that as you collect it inspires revisiting the historical record which in the case of early cosmonautics has been somewhat distrorted and stated as historical fact to this day.
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