Vostok 1

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crewed spacecraft space mission

Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.

Aliases (6)

Vostok 1 mission ×4
Vostok 1 (indirectly, via Gagarin) ×1
Vostok 1 spacecraft ×1
Vostok 3KA-3 ×1
Vostok spacecraft ×1
Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	crewed spacecraft → space mission →
apogeeAltitudeKm	approx 327 →
chiefDesigner	Sergei Korolev →
commander	Yuri Gagarin →
commemoratedBy	International Day of Human Space Flight →
commemoratedOn	April 12 each year →
cosmonautEjectionAltitudeKm	approx 7 → approx 8 →
countryOfOrigin	Soviet Union →
crewCallsSign	Kedr →
crewHabitat	Vostok descent module →
crewMember	Yuri Gagarin →
crewSize	1 →
firstHumanInSpace	Yuri Gagarin →
followedBy	Vostok 2 →
guidanceControl	largely automated flight control →
historicalSignificance	major milestone in the Space Race → marked humanity’s first journey into outer space →
inclinationDegrees	approx 64.95 →
landingDate	1961-04-12 →
landingMethod	cosmonaut ejected and landed by parachute →
landingNear	Engels, Saratov Oblast →
landingRegion	Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union →
languageOfCommunications	Russian →
launchDate	1961-04-12 →
launchRocket	Vostok-K 8K72K →
launchSite	Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1 → Gagarin’s Start →
launchTimeUTC	06:07:00 →
launchYear	1961 →
lifeSupport	closed-cycle environmental control system →
manualControlUnlockCodeHolder	Yuri Gagarin →
missionDuration	approx 108 minutes →
missionOutcome	success →
missionType	crewed orbital spaceflight →
notableFor	first human spaceflight in history → first human to orbit Earth →
operator	Soviet space program →
orbitalPeriodMinutes	approx 89 →
orbitsCompleted	1 →
orbitType	low Earth orbit →
perigeeAltitudeKm	approx 169 →
precededBy	Korabl-Sputnik test flights →
program	Vostok program →
spacecraftLandingMethod	separate descent module →
spacecraftManufacturer	OKB-1 →
spacecraftType	Vostok spacecraft →
status	completed →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Baikonur Cosmodrome ("Vostok 1 mission") → Space Age ("Vostok 1 mission") → Space Race ("Vostok 1 mission") →	significantEvent
Baikonur Cosmodrome → Soviet space program →	launched
Klushino, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ("Vostok 1 (indirectly, via Gagarin)") →	associatedWith
Vostok-K rocket ("Vostok 1 spacecraft") →	carried
International Day of Human Space Flight ("Vostok 1 mission") →	commemorates
Space Race →	firstHumanSpaceflightMission
R-7 Semyorka →	launchOf
Vostok-K rocket →	notableLaunch
Sergei Korolev ("Vostok spacecraft") →	notableWork
International Day of Human Space Flight →	relatedTo
Yuri Gagarin ("Vostok 3KA-3") →	spacecraft
Yuri Gagarin →	spaceMission
Space Age ("Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight") →	symbolizedBy
Vostok-K rocket →	usedInMission