Vostok 3 and 4
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Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were Soviet space program flights in August 1962, intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness, test the ground control capabil
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Model of the Vostok capsule with its carrier rocket's upper stage
Pavel Popovich
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Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Vostok 3 and 4
…times in Vostok 3 over nearly four days in space, August 11–15, 1962, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program (1965–1966). Pavel Popovich was launched on Vostok 4 on August 12, and made 48 Earth orbits. The two capsules were launched on trajectories that brought the spacecraft within…
Popovich on a Soviet stamp
Popovich in Vostok 4
Popovich with Milivoj Jugin in Belgrade
Postage stamp (Soviet Union): Pavel Popovich and Yury Artyukhin – Soyuz 14 Mission