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 | | Vostok, with an orbiting speed of 27,400 km/h (17,000 mph), was launched from the Tyuratam Cosmodrome and completed the history setting flight, once around the Earth, in 108 minutes, parachuting down on the Soviet soil of Kazakhstan. |
 | | The Vostok program, the pride of the USSR and the first to put a man into space, eventually became little more than an exhibitionist circus to promote the Soviet government, which had a space program superior to the rest. |
 | | Vostok 5, launched on June 14, 1963, was yet another record setting Piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Valeriy Bykovski, Vostok 5 was ordered to remain in orbit for an unprecedented, and largely unnecessary, 119 hours 6 minutes, a space endurance record which would remained unmatched until the end of the decade. |
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