On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...
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Vostok 1’s hidden reentry crisis, the spinning capsule that nearly killed Yuri Gagarin
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, but the Soviet Union buried how close Vostok 1 came to disaster during reentry. From a failed valve to a delayed separation and a forced ...
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The hidden reentry crisis of Vostok 1, how Yuri Gagarin’s first flight nearly spun out of control
In 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history, but the most dangerous part of Vostok 1 began after the retro burn, when a failure sent the capsule into a terrifying spin and forced a landing the Soviets could ...
In this clip from the 1967 Soviet movie A Cruise to the Stars, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is shown training for his historic mission as engineers test various systems of the Vostok capsule. Accepting the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The former Soviet Union began manned space flight on April 12, 1961, when they launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth aboard ...
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