This photo released by spacecraft manufacturer RSC Energia shows the Vostok spacecraft. On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin launched into orbit on Vostok 1 to become the first human ...

The Vostok 3KA-2 is an exact double of the capsule that carried Gagarin into space a few weeks later. Gagarin's Vostok 1 craft resides at the Russian rocket maker Rkk Energia's Museum near Moscow ...

On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...