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Vostok: Media
Soviet spacecraft series
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Vostok launch vehicle
Vostok launch vehicle, showing the stage-and-a-half rocket booster liquid-propellant...
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Vostok 2; Glenn, John; Kennedy, John F.; Titov, Gherman
NASA astronaut John Glenn (left) and Russian astronaut Gherman Titov (right) flanking...
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Pavel Popovich on Vostok 4
Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich during the Vostok 4 flight, August 12–15, 1962.
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Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova, the first female astronaut to fly into space. She spent nearly...
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Vostok 6
Vostok 6 spacecraft, in which the first woman cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, orbited...
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