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 ...

At 9:34 a.m, Eastern Standard Time, the Redstone rocket barreled away from Earth ... the Museum has put on display two 1:3 scale models of the Vostok 3KA and Mercury capsules.

Within minutes, the automated rocket reached a maximum height of 346,802 ... was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, becoming the first woman in space and the only woman ...

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.

he proposed the clustered-booster idea for the famous R-7 rocket, he oversaw the design of Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok rocket, and he supervised the development of the first Soviet moon probes.

six women aboard Blue Origin Flight NS-31 made history as the first all-female crew to fly to the edge of space since Valentina Tereshkova's solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6. The rocket took off for ...

The launch itself was at a knife’s edge when the first test flight of Vostok-K rocket failed. Yuri Gagarin during last minute checks of Vostok’s control systems before launch (Picture ...