Astronomy:List of Vostok and Voskhod missions

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Vostok and Voskhod were two spacecraft flown by the Soviet Union. Between 1960 and 1966, Vostok and Voskhod performed 11 successful, 2 partially successful and 3 unsuccessful missions. There are allegations that the Soviets had sent more Vostok missions than what Russian officials said, which are excluded from this list.[1]

Vostok missions

Mission Spacecraft Launch Landing Crew Outcome Notes
Korabl-Sputnik 1 1P 15 May 1960 5 September 1962 N/A Partial failure Uncontrolled reentry with debris landing in Manitowoc, Wisconsin[2]
Unnamed 1K-1 28 July 1960 N/A N/A Failure Booster exploded on launch killing two dogs flying on the mission - Bars (“Panther” or “Lynx”) and Lisichka (“Little Fox”).[3]
Korabl-Sputnik 2 1K-2 19 August 1960 20 August 1960 N/A Success First spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth, including two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka[4]: 20–21, 27 
Korabl-Sputnik 3 1K-3 1 December 1960 2 December 1960 N/A Partial failure capsule burned up on re-entry killing dogs Pchelka and Muska.[5]
Unnamed 1K-4 22 December 1960 N/A N/A Failure Launch aborted when upper stage failed preventing injection into orbit. Dogs Damka (“Little Lady”) and Krasavka (“Beauty”) were safely recovered downrange after their suborbital flight.[3]
Korabl-Sputnik 4 3KA-1 9 March 1961 9 March 1961 N/A Success successful flight, included dog Chernushka, some mice, and a guinea pig[5]
Korabl-Sputnik 5 3KA-2 25 March 1961 25 March 1961 N/A Success final test flight prior to Vostok 1, included the dog Zvezdochka ("Starlet") on a single-orbit mission[6]: 267 
Vostok 1 3KA-3 12 April 1961 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin Success First man in space.[7]
Vostok 2 3KA-4 6 August 1961 7 August 1961 Gherman Titov Success First crewed mission lasting a full day.[8]
Vostok 3 3KA-5 11 August 1962 15 August 1962 Andriyan Nikolayev Success First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.[9]
Vostok 4 3KA-6 12 August 1962 15 August 1962 Pavel Popovich Success First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.[9]
Vostok 5 3KA-7 14 June 1963 19 June 1963 Valery Bykovsky Success Longest solo orbital flight.[10]
Vostok 6 3KA-8 16 June 1963 19 June 1963 Valentina Tereshkova Success First woman in space.[11]

Voskhod missions

Mission Spacecraft Launch Landing Crew Outcome Notes
Kosmos 47 3KV-2 6 October 1964 7 October 1964 N/A Success Uncrewed test flight of prototype Soviet Voskhod spacecraft[12]
Voskhod 1 3KV-3 12 October 1964 13 October 1964 Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Boris Yegorov		 Success First multi-crewed spacecraft.[4]: 236 
Kosmos 57 3KD-1 22 February 1965 6 April 1965 N/A Failure Spacecraft destroyed during third orbit; over 100 pieces of spacecraft debris were tracked, falling into the ocean between 31 March and 6 April 1965.[13]: 243 
Voskhod 2 3KD-4 18 March 1965 19 March 1965 Pavel Belyayev
Alexey Leonov		 Success First spacewalk.[13]: 244–248 
Kosmos 110 3KV-5 22 February 1966 16 March 1966 N/A Success Carried two dogs, Veterok ("Breeze") and Ugolyok ("Little piece of coal") to study prolonged effects of space travel.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Oberth Believes Astronauts Lost". Gadsden Times. Associated Press. December 10, 1959. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2KIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=49UEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6081,1801807. 
  2. ↑ Hernet, Dennis (January 26, 1978). "Russia's first satellite disintegrated over city". Herald Times-Reporter. https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-times-reporter/16033003/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gray, Tara (January 18, 1998). "A Brief History of Animals in Space". https://www.nasa.gov/history/a-brief-history-of-animals-in-space/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chertok, Boris (2009). "Volume 3: Hot Days of the Cold War". Rockets and People. NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/636007main_RocketsPeopleVolume3-ebook.pdf?emrc=03734e. Retrieved December 25, 2025. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shinabery, Michael (July 27, 2014). "Dogs test spacecrafts' ability to function in space". Alamogordo Daily News. https://www.newspapers.com/article/alamogordo-daily-news-dogs-test-spacecra/187448597/. 
  6. ↑ Siddiqi, Asif A. (2000). Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945 - 1974 (Part 1). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/SP-4408pt1.pdf. Retrieved December 25, 2025. 
  7. ↑ "The flight of Vostok 1". ESA. https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_in_space/The_flight_of_Vostok_1. 
  8. ↑ "The First Day In Orbit" (PDF). Flight (London: Iliffe Transport Publications) 80 (2736): 208. 17 August 1961. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%201106.html. Retrieved 2009-03-12. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Hero's Welcome Soon for Spacemen". The Age (Melbourne Australia). August 16, 1962. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-heros-welcome-soon-for-spacemen/187435256/. 
  10. ↑ "50 years later, Bykovsky's record for longest solo flight on a spacecraft still intact". June 3, 2013. https://fai.org/news/50-years-later-bykovskys-record-longest-solo-flight-spacecraft-still-intact. 
  11. ↑ "1963: Soviets launch first woman into space". BBC. 1963-06-16. https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16/newsid_2685000/2685283.stm. 
  12. ↑ Zak, Anatoly (February 13, 2024). "Kosmos-47: The Final test of Voskhod". https://www.russianspaceweb.com/voskhod-kosmos47.html. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Hall, Rex; Shayler, David (2001). The Rocket Men, Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing. pp. 243. ISBN 1-85233-391-X. 
  14. ↑ LMurray (2007-11-05). "Laika and Her "Children"---Animals in the Space Race" (in en). https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/laika-and-her-children-animals-in-the-space-race. 



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