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| | Vostok spacecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | The Vostok (&1042;&1086;&1089;&1090;&1086;&1082;, translated as "East") was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight. |
 | | Vostok spacecraft The craft consisted of a spherical descent module (mass 2.46 tonnes, diameter 2.3 meters), which housed the cosmonaut, instruments and escape system, and a conical instrument module (mass 2.27 tonnes, 2.25 m long, 2.43 m wide), which contained propellant and the engine system. |
 | | The Vostok spacecraft was originally designed for use both as a camera platform (for the Soviet Union's first spy satellite program, Zenit) and as a manned spacecraft. |
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