The Soviet programme for doing this was the Vostok programme.

: See also Selection and training of the Vostok programme

Category: Vostok programme

Gagarin was further selected for an elite training group known as the Sochi Six, from which the first cosmonauts of the Vostok programme would be chosen.

It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programme.

* Vostok ( rocket family ), family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme

Category: Vostok programme

Category: Vostok programme

Category: Vostok programme

Category: Vostok programme

Category: Vostok programme

Voskhod development was both a follow-on to the Vostok programme and a recycling of components left over from that programme's cancellation following its first six flights.

The spacecraft was part of the Vostok programme in which six manned spaceflights were made from 1961 to 1963.

The Vostok programme (,, Orient or East ) was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth's orbit for the first time.

The programme developed the Vostok spacecraft from the Zenit spy satellite project and adapted the Vostok rocket from an existing ICBM design.

There were six manned spaceflights in the Vostok programme, all of which took place between 1961 and 1963.

The programme preceded the Voskhod programme, which used modified Vostok capsules.

Damka ( Дамка, " Queen of checkers ") and Krasavka ( Красавка, " Little Beauty ") were to make an orbital flight on December 22, 1960 as a part of the Vostok programme, but their mission was marked by a string of equipment failures.

" Barss " not " Barz "; " Snow leopard ") and Lisichka ( Лисичка, " Little Fox ") were also on a mission to orbit as a part of the Vostok programme, but died after their rocket exploded 28. 5 seconds into the launch on July 28, 1960.

* Cosmos 133 was a Soviet Soyuz programme test satellite launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome aboard a Vostok rocket in 1966

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

* 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

The next step of this became the competition between the Mercury Project and the Soviet Vostok Program of bringing a pilot into space and in orbit around the Earth.

The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.

Vostok 1 was launched by the Soviet space program, and was designed by Soviet engineers guided by Sergei Korolev under the supervision of Kerim Kerimov and others.

Vostok 1 passes over Soviet Union and moves on over Siberia.

Although some contemporary Soviet sources stated that Gagarin had parachuted separately to the ground, the Soviet Union officially insisted that he had landed with the Vostok ; the government forced the cosmonaut to lie in press conferences, and the FAI certified the flight.

The Soviet Union did not admit until 1971 that Gagarin had ejected and landed separately from the Vostok descent module.

When Soviet officials filled out the FAI papers to register the flight of Vostok 1, they stated that the launch site was Baykonur at.

* The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union gave a peaceful outlet to the political and military tensions of the Cold War, leading to the first human spaceflight with the Soviet Union's Vostok 1 mission in 1961, and man's first landing on another world — the Moon — with America's Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

* June 16 – Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.

** Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once.

* August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.

* August 7 – Vostok 2 with Titov onboard lands in Soviet Union.

The first manned spacecraft was Vostok 1, which carried Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961, and completed a full Earth orbit.

The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, aboard which Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth.

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 1 manned spacecraft on 12 April 1961.

Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ( Vostok 1 ), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Vostok 1 (, East 1 or Orient 1 ) was the first spaceflight in the Vostok program and the first human spaceflight in history.

He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

On 12 April 1961, aboard the Vostok 3KA-3 ( Vostok 1 ), Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth.

The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, on which cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the USSR made one orbit around the Earth.

* Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight

Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft in human history, was launched from one of Baikonur's launch pads, which is presently known as Gagarin's Start.

Vostok 2 (, Orient 2 or East 2 ) was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961 to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body.

Vostok 3 (, Orient 3 or East 3 ) was a spaceflight of the Soviet space program intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness and test the endurance of the Vostok 3KA spacecraft over longer flights.

Vostok 6 (, Orient 6 or East 6 ) was the first human spaceflight mission to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.