Vostok
Human SpaceflightCCCPConcluded1961–1963
13 flights
84.6%success rate11 of 13
2failuresfull and partial
0upcomingwithout a definitive outcome
Counted from padside's own launch record, the same basis as the stats page.
The Vostok programme was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succeeded in placing the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin, in a single orbit in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
Flights
5 of 13Record
Vostok 8K72 | Korabl'-Sputnik-1
Rockets: Vostok-K (9), Vostok 8K72 (4)
Launch sites: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan (13)
Crew flown: 6 — Andriyan Nikolayev, Gherman Titov, Pavel Popovich, Valentina Tereshkova, Valery Bykovsky, Yuri Gagarin
Events
No scheduled or recent events for this program.