Vostok 6
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Vostok 6 was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
The Vostok 6 capsule in a museum display (2016)
Valentina Tereshkova, first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, 1969.Vostok program← Vostok 5
Vostok 6 patch
Vostok spacecraft
Vostok (spacecraft)
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Vostok was a class of single-pilot crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The first human spaceflight was accomplished with Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Vostok 6
…as the Vostok program experienced cutbacks as a precursor to the retooling of the program into the Voskhod program. Vostok 6 was the last flight of a Vostok 3KA spacecraft and the final flight of the Vostok programme. The Vostok 6 landing site coordinates are , 200 km (120 mi) west of Barnaul, Altai, Russia and…
Arrangement of instruments and controls in the cockpit of Vostok ships
Vostok "Sharik"