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	Vostok spacecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vostok (Восток, translated as "East") was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight.
		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.
		The basic Vostok design has remained in use for some forty years, gradually adapted for a range of other unmanned satellites.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vostok_spacecraft (257 words)

	Vostok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The spacecraft used in that programme and also the basis of a reconnaissance satellite.
		Lake Vostok beneath the Vostok base, which also seems destined to play a part in the space exploration, given theories that it provides conditions similar to those on icy Jovian moons, primarily on Europa.
		Vostok is a brand of watch, made in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vostok (176 words)

	Vostok
		Vostok 1 was the first manned spacecraft to complete a full orbit, Vostok 2 the first to spend a full day in space.
		Vostok 5 was the first long-duration mission, and Vostok 6 the first to carry a woman.
		Vostok 3 and 4 took off from the same launch pad a day apart and were placed in such accurate orbits that the spacecraft passed within 6.5 km of each other.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/V/Vostok.html (853 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.
		Spacecraft attitude in relation to the local motion along the orbit was determined by sun sensors, infrared horizon sensors and ion gauges, which could detect the spacecraft's direction of motion by the greater velocity of ions impacting the spacecraft in the direction of motion.
	www.braeunig.us /space/specs/vostok.htm (754 words)

	Vostok 8K72K
		Vostok 8K72K - 8K72K COSPAR 1961-Mu 18,065 bytes.
		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.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/lvs/vos8k72k.htm (1524 words)

	Vostok 6
		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 6 landed at 08:20 GMT at 53:16 N 80:27 E. 1963 Jun 20 - Vostok 5/6 cosmonaut debriefing Spacecraft: Vostok 3KA.
	www.astronautix.com /flights/vostok6.htm (7273 words)

	Chapter 12 -- Human Spaceflight: The Soviets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vostok spacecraft contained two sections: the cosmonaut sat in a spherically shaped descent module while the instruments and retrorocket to bring the orbiter back to Earth were housed in a double cone structure below the descent module.
		The overall weight of Vostok was 9,400 pounds; it had a length of 4.4 meters (15 feet) and a diameter of 2.43 m (10 feet).
		Since the SL-3 booster was severely power limited due to the weight of the Vostok spacecraft, the first cosmonauts would eject from the craft at an altitude of 7km or 23,000 feet.
	www.space.edu /projects/book/chapter12.html (2128 words)

	Index (Space Travel History)
		Vostok Spacecraft The Vostok spacecraft was a small one-man spherical descent module.
		Vostok 1 was launched on April 12, 1961, it carried aboard the first human to space Yuri A. Gagarin.
		Vostok 3 and 4 were launched with in a day of each other on August 11 and 12, 1962 and fell into similar orbits.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1729/space/sth.html (1355 words)

	The Partnership - ch3-4
		Prior to descent, the spacecraft was oriented for reentry by means of a solar sensor located in the equipment compartment.
		Vostok was then a simple sphere, descending along a ballistic trajectory, protected from the intense reentry temperatures by an ablative coating that shielded the entire craft.
		Further progress on manned spacecraft was influenced by the Air Force and by research in progress at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4209/ch3-4.htm (2511 words)

	Vostok -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vostoks 5 and 6 were launched two days apart and traveled very close together, at times only 3 mi (5 km) apart, setting the stage for future dockings between orbiting vehicles.
		Vostok was sighted in 1820 by the Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and was named for his ship.
		On April 12, 1961, the 4.75-ton spacecraft Vostok 1 was launched at 9:07 in the morning, Moscow time, from a location in Baikonur, a wasteland in the south-central region of the Soviet Union (now in Kazakhstan).
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9382174?tocId=9382174 (778 words)

	Soyuz spacecraft
		The longest serving manned spacecraft in the world, the Soyuz was originally conceived in Sergei Korolev's OKB-1 design bureau for the Soviet effort to explore the Moon at the beginning of the 1960s.
		The Soyuz T version of the spacecraft flew its first manned mission in 1980, and since 1986 the Soyuz TM modification of the spacecraft has been delivering crews to the Mir space station.
		The Soyuz TM spacecraft photographed by the Shuttle crew at the docking port of the Mir space station.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /soyuz.html (1035 words)

	The Partnership - ch3-5
		By 15 May 1960, the Soviets had progressed sufficiently with the development of their spacecraft and the adaptation of their ICBM boosters as launch vehicles to commence a series of five unmanned test flights.
		Vostok II may have been related to the motion sickness experienced by Titov.
		Mercury and Vostok demonstrated the feasibility of placing a human being in orbit, observing his reactions to the space environment, and returning him safely to earth at a known point.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4209/ch3-5.htm (1114 words)

	Vostok 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gagarin orbited the Earth once, in 108 minutes, and returned unharmed, ejecting from the Vostok capsule 7 km above the ground and parachuting separately to the ground (the capsule's parachute landing was too rough for cosmonauts to risk).
		The spacecraft carried 10 days of provisions to allow for survival and natural decay of the orbit in the event the retros failed.
		At 2.5 km altitude, the main parachute is deployed from the Vostok spacecraft.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vostok-1.htm (2008 words)

	VOSKHOD SPACECRAFT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The craft consisted of a spherical descent module (diameter 2.3 meters), which housed the cosmonauts, and instruments, 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 Voskhod spacecraft is basically a Vostok spacecraft that has had a backup, solid fuel retro rocket, added to the top of the descent module.
		This was necessary because, unlike the Vostok, the crew lands with the Voskhod descent module.
	www.bellabuds.com /Voskhod_spacecraft (523 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Spaceflight Directory - Vostok Flight Details
		At an altitude of 23,000 feet, he ejected from the spacecraft and descended to the ground with a personal parachute.
		Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were in similar orbits and passed within 4 miles of each other.
		Although Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 passed within 3 miles of each other, they were not in similar orbits and could not perform a rendezvous.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /space/vtok-00.htm (305 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vostok programme (Восто́к, translated as "East") was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth orbit for the first time.
		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 and Vostok 4 First dual flight.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Vostok_programme (95 words)

	Vostok rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vostok 8K72K rocket launches Vostok-1 spaceship (Baikonur, April 12, 1961)
		The Vostok rocket (Russian Восток, translated as "East") was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for other satellite launches.
		An investigation into a similar -- but avoided -- accident revealed that the substitution of lead-based for tin-based solder in hydrogen peroxide filters had resulted in the breakdown of the H
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vostok_rocket (258 words)

	The Cold War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gherman Titov, aboard Vostok 2, was the first man to spend a full day in orbit during tests designed to study the effect of weightlessness on cosmonauts.
		A converted Vostok spacecraft carrying a camera instead of a cosmonaut was successfully launched, and it returned with photos taken above the United States.
		To re-enter the spacecraft, Leonov was forced to release some of the air from inside his suit.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/projects/ColdWar/Space/timeline.html (868 words)

	TIME.com - 100 Years of Flight - Planes - Space
		History was made in the Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961, when Russian Yuri Gagarin made one complete orbit of the Earth, a 1 hr., 48 min.
		Shepard would not eject from the cramped spacecraft until it had landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean, from which he and vehicle would be rescued by helicopter.
		The first set of permanent crews arrived to the ISS in 2000, and while construction is expected to continue until 2006, the international space station is already serving its purpose as a research laboratory for experiments conducted within a pressurized environment as well as outside in space.
	www.time.com /time/2003/flight/planes_space.html (713 words)

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		The Voskhods were adaptations of the single place Vostok spacecraft meant to conduct flights with up to three crew and for space walks in advance of US Gemini program.
		Vostok 2 finally landed near Perm in the Ural mountains in heavy forest at 59:34 N 55:28 E on March 19, 1965 9:02 GMT.
		The spacecraft should be designed to have more aerodynamic lift than Mercury, so the pilot could have more landing control; fuel cells (instead of batteries) with enough electric power to support longer duration flights; and fighter plane-type ejection seats for crew abort, to supersede the launch escape rocket that perched on top of Mercury.
	zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/space/lectures/lec12.html (3800 words)

	Vostok retro-fire attitude
		From the literature we know that Vostok spacecraft were originally designed with an attitude determination system based on an earth and sun sunsensor.
		It shows the spacecraft adopting the solar attitude at exit from eclipse and then keeping this until the retro impulse vector was pointing slightly downwards.
		Azimuth is defined as the position of the sun in a plane perpendicular to the radius vector to the spacecraft.
	www.svengrahn.pp.se /histind/vostokretro/vostokretro.html (1402 words)

	Vostok 3KA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vostok crew accommodation was for one cosmonaut, in a spacesuit, equipped with an ejection seat for launch aborts and for landing on the earth.
		The spacecraft form should be a cone with a rounded nose and spherical base, with a maximum diameter of 2.0 m - the 'headlight' shape later used for the Soyuz capsule.
		Spacecraft number 5 is already in final tests, with Spacecraft 6 one to two days behind it in the processing flow.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/vosok3ka.htm (15465 words)

	Vostok 1KP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Council of Chief designers approved the Vostok manned space program, in combination with Zenit spy satellite program Korolev was authorised to proceed with development of a spacecraft to achieve manned flights at the earliest possible date.
		However the design would be such that the same spacecraft could be used to fulfil the military's unmanned photo reconnaissance satellite requirement.
		Due to a bitter fight with the military over the nature and priority of the manned spacecraft and photo-reconnaissance space programs, the final decree for the Vostok manned spacecraft was delayed until seven months after drawing release began.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/craft/vosok1kp.htm (332 words)

	Russia's early manned space flight projects (1945-1963)
		The Vostok spacecraft reentry capsule and the protective pressure suit.
		The actual reentry capsule of the Vostok-6 spacecraft, the Gagarin's capsule is on the background.
		The reentry capsule of the Voskhod-2 spacecraft with an attached copy of the airlock and the mannequin illustrating the spacewalk by Alexei Leonov.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /spacecraft_manned_first.html (283 words)

	The first journey
		Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region of the former Union ofSoviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		The capsule's control panels were locked, since everything was either automated or controlled from the ground, but Gagarin had the code to unlock the controls in a sealed envelope in case there was an emergency.
		Vostok 1 landed in a field near Saratov, observed only by cows and a few peasants.
	azowel.8k.com /firstjor.htm (722 words)

	The Ejection Site: Vostok Spacecraft Ejection seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vostok capsules used in the earliest Russian human space flights used ejection seats for final recovery of the one man crew.
		The cosmonaut would reenter the atmosphere in the capsule and descend under parachutes to an altitude in the 6000 meter range before ejecting from the capsule and descending under a personal parachute pack.
		Also the somewhat rectangular boxes on the bottom of the assembly (three are visible, two together and one under the curve) are standard Russian PPK mechanical/barometric timer units, used on most of the Zvezda seats, as well as for personal parachute packs.
	www.ejectionsite.com /vostok.htm (129 words)

	Spacecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Vostok" is the name of the series of the Soviet one manned spacecraft and the programme of the low earth orbit flights.
		These spacecraft were created under the direction of Korolyov S.P. The aims of the "Vostok" programme were as follows:
		The "Vostok" spacecraft consists of two main modules: a descent (orbital) module (DM) and instrument module (IM).
	gctc.ru /eng/gagarin/kosm_apparat.htm (120 words)

	Section 330: Vostok and Voskhod
		o fit three cosmonauts into the crowded Vostok spacecraft, Soviet designers made a risky decision for the Voskhod 1 mission: the cosmonauts would not wear bulky pressure suits, usually worn as a precaution in case the vehicle depressurized.
		Once inflated in orbit, the airlock became a tunnel for exiting and re-entering the spacecraft, which remained sealed.
		For American spacewalks, the spacecraft was completely depressurized and the hatch opened directly to space.
	www.hrw.com /science/si-science/earth/spacetravel/spacerace/SpaceRace/sec300/sec330.html (519 words)

	Vostok and Voskhod
		In six missions from 1961 through 1963, a Vostok ("East") spacecraft carried a cosmonaut into Earth orbit in successively longer flights.
		he Vostok spacecraft then was modified to hold two or three cosmonauts and renamed Voskhod ("Sunrise").
		s a reward for redesigning the Vostok capsule to accommodate more than one cosmonaut, Soviet spacecraft designer Konstantin Feoktistov was selected to join the crew of the 1964 Voskhod mission.
	www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal114/SpaceRace/sec300/sec330.htm (207 words)

	Articles - Voskhod programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok programme using the Voskhod spacecraft and rocket.
		Both were realised and the programme was then abandoned due to the EVA problems on Voskhod 2 and the need to concentrate on the Soyuz programme.
		The Voskhod spacecraft was basically a Vostok spacecraft that had a backup, solid fuel retro rocket added to the top of the descent module.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Voskhod_programme (469 words)

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