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List of Vostok and Voskhod missions

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Vostok and Voskhod were two spacecraft flown by the Soviet Union. Between 1960 and 1966, Vostok and Voskhod performed 11 successful, 2 partially successful and 3 unsuccessful missions. There are allegations that the Soviets had sent more Vostok missions than what Russian officials said, which are excluded from this list.

Vostok missions

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Mission Spacecraft Launch Landing Crew Outcome Notes
Korabl-Sputnik 1 1P 15 May 1960 5 September 1962 Partial failure
Unnamed 1K-1 28 July 1960 Failure
Korabl-Sputnik 2 1K-2 19 August 1960 20 August 1960 Success
Korabl-Sputnik 3 1K-3 1 December 1960 2 December 1960 Partial failure
Unnamed 1K-4 22 December 1960 Failure
Korabl-Sputnik 4 3KA-1 9 March 1961 9 March 1961 Success
Korabl-Sputnik 5 3KA-2 25 March 1961 25 March 1961 Success
Vostok 1 3KA-3 12 April 1961 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin Success First man in space.
Vostok 2 3KA-4 6 August 1961 7 August 1961 Gherman Titov Success First crewed mission lasting a full day.
Vostok 3 3KA-5 11 August 1962 15 August 1962 Andriyan Nikolayev Success First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.
Vostok 4 3KA-6 12 August 1962 15 August 1962 Pavel Popovich Success First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.
Vostok 5 3KA-7 14 June 1963 19 June 1963 Valery Bykovsky Success Longest solo orbital flight.
Vostok 6 3KA-8 16 June 1963 19 June 1963 Valentina Tereshkova Success First woman in space.

Voskhod missions

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Mission Spacecraft Launch Landing Crew Outcome Notes
Kosmos 47 3KV-2 6 October 1964 7 October 1964 Success
Voskhod 1 3KV-3 12 October 1964 13 October 1964 Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Boris Yegorov
Success First multiman spacecraft.
Kosmos 57 3KD-1 22 February 1965 6 April 1965 Failure
Voskhod 2 3KD-4 18 March 1965 19 March 1965 Pavel Belyayev
Alexey Leonov
Success First spacewalk.
Kosmos 110 3KV-5 22 February 1966 16 March 1966 Success

See also

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