Vostok, Card No 06 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)
From The Brighton Toy and Model Index
Jump to navigationJump to search
.jpg)
Card No. 06: Vostok
First man to go into space was Russia's Yuri Gagarin.
On April 12th, 1961, his 10,418 pound, Vostok spacecraft made a single orbit of the Earth inclined at 65° to the Equator and ranging between 109 and 188 miles altitude. The spacecraft comprised a ball-like re-entry capsule, containing the cosmonaut on an ejection seat, and a service module with retro-rocket, air supply and gas-jet stabilisation. The entire flight from lift-off to touchdown lasted 108 min.
Five more cosmonauts later flew in Vostok spacecraft, including the first space woman Valentina Tereshkova. Gagarin was killed in a flying accident on March 27th, 1968.
