At 11:10 a report was broadcast that at 10:25 Gagarin had completed one circuit of the earth and that the spaceship’s braking rocket had been fired. This was the perilous point when the Vostok ...

His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and Vostok space capsule. He lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached an altitude of about 200 miles.