Look up: Vostok

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   Vostok
   `Vostok` (translated as ``East``) may refer to one of the following. ;Spaceflight * The Soviet Vostok programme of human spaceflight. * The Vostok spacecraft used in that programme and also the basis of a reconnaissance satellite. * The Vostok rocket, used to launch the Vostok spacecraft. * Vostok, a crater explored by the Mars rover Opportunity. ;Other meanings *The corvette `Vostok` with which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen explored Ant...
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   Vostok
   (from the article `Antarctica`) ...following World War I after the decline of sealing. Among the few geographic and scientific expeditions that stand out during this period are ...
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   Vostok
   any of a series of manned Soviet spacecraft, the initial flight of which carried the first human being into space. Launched on April 12, 1961, ... [9 related articles]
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   Vostok
   The first series of manned Russian spacecraft. Six Vostok ('East') missions, from 1961 through 1963, carried cosmonauts on successively longer flights, and each set a new first in spaceflight history. Vostok 1 was the first manned spacecraft to complete a full orbit, Vostok 2 the first to ...
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