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Vostok 6
Sign in to saveSoviet space mission of 1963, the first human spaceflight to carry a woman (Valentina Tereshkova) into space
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Vinony's link graph records 129 inbound references to Vostok 6, and connects out to Environmental Research Satellite, apsis and Vostok programme.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1963 in the Soviet Union, Crewed Vostok missions and June 1963.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1963-023A
- Mission duration
- 2 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes
- Spacecraft
- Vostok-3KA No.8
- Manufacturer
- Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 4,713 kilograms (10,390 lb)
- Members
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Callsign
- Чайка ( Chayka - "Seagull")
- Launch date
- 16 June 1963, 09:29:52 ( 1963-06-16UTC09:29:52Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K 8K72K
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Landing date
- 19 June 1963, 08:20 ( 1963-06-19UTC08:21Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- 53°12′34″N 80°48′14″E / 53.209375°N 80.80395°E / 53.209375; 80.80395
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth
- Perigee altitude
- 164 kilometres (102 mi)
- Apogee altitude
- 212 kilometres (132 mi)
- Inclination
- 65.09 degrees
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 4250
- Mass
- 4713
- Orbital period
- 87.8
- Image
- Vostok spacecraft.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vostok 6
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1963-06-16
- apoapsis
- 231
- periapsis
- 180
- orbital inclination
- 64.9
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1963-06-19
- orbits completed
- 48
- call sign
- Чайка
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Encyclopedic overview
Vostok 6 (Russian: Восток-6, lit. 'Orient 6' or 'East 6') was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
Mission
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vostok 6” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (3)
On the map
2 mapped locations