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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.

Vostok missions

Mission Spacecraft Launch Landing Crew Outcome Notes
Korabl-Sputnik 1 1P 15 May 1960 5 September 1962 Partial failure
Unnamed 1K-1 28 July 1960 Failure
Korabl-Sputnik 2 1K-2 19 August 1960 20 August 1960 Success
Korabl-Sputnik 3 1K-3 1 December 1960 2 December 1960 Partial failure
Unnamed 1K-4 22 December 1960 Failure
Korabl-Sputnik 4 3KA-1 9 March 1961 9 March 1961 Success
Korabl-Sputnik 5 3KA-2 25 March 1961 25 March 1961 Success
Vostok 1 3KA-3 12 April 1961 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin Success First man in space.
Vostok 2 3KA-4 6 August 1961 7 August 1961 Gherman Titov Success First crewed mission lasting a full day.
Vostok 3 3KA-5 11 August 1962 15 August 1962 Andriyan Nikolayev Success First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.
Vostok 4 3KA-6 12 August 1962 15 August 1962 Pavel Popovich Success First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.
Vostok 5 3KA-7 14 June 1963 19 June 1963 Valery Bykovsky Success Longest solo orbital flight.
Vostok 6 3KA-8 16 June 1963 19 June 1963 Valentina Tereshkova Success First woman in space.

Voskhod missions

Mission Spacecraft Launch Landing Crew Outcome Notes
Kosmos 47 3KV-2 6 October 1964 7 October 1964 Success
Voskhod 1 3KV-3 12 October 1964 13 October 1964 Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Boris Yegorov
Success First multiman spacecraft.
Kosmos 57 3KD-1 22 February 1965 6 April 1965 Failure
Voskhod 2 3KD-4 18 March 1965 19 March 1965 Pavel Belyayev
Alexey Leonov
Success First spacewalk.
Kosmos 110 3KV-5 22 February 1966 16 March 1966 Success

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