Vostok 3

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Mission statistics
Mission name:	Vostok 3
Call sign:	Сокол (Sokol - "Falcon")
Number of crew members:	1
Launch:	August 11, 1962 08:30 UTC Baikonur LC1
Landing:	August 15, 1962 06:52 UTC 42°2′N 75°45′E
Duration:	3 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes
Number of Orbits:	65
Apogee:	218 km
Perigee:	166 km
Period:	88.3 minutes
Orbit inclination:	65.0°
Mass:	4722 kg
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Vostok 3 was a mission in the Soviet space program. Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 patch File links The following pages link to this file: Vostok 3 Vostok 4 Categories: Pre-1973 Soviet Union images ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC - see below for explanation) is a high-precision atomic time standard. ... The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the worlds oldest and largest working space launch facility. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... A diagram of Keplerian orbital elements. ... A diagram of Keplerian orbital elements. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction. ... Gherman Titov Vostok 2 was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day in order to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. ... Vostok 4 was a mission in the Soviet space program. ... The Vostok (Восток, translated as East) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Unions space program for human spaceflight. ... Soviet Soyuz rockets like the one pictured above were the first reliable means to transport objects into Earth orbit. ...

Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart, and together these missions marked the first time that more than one manned spacecraft was in orbit at the same time, giving Soviet mission controllers the opportunity of learning how to manage this scenario. Vostok 4 was a mission in the Soviet space program. ... Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev Establishment October Revolution   - Declared...

Vostok 3 was manned by Andrian Nikolayev, who reported sighting the Vostok 4 capsule after it entered orbit near him. The cosmonauts aboard the two capsules also communicated with each other via radio, the first ship-to-ship communications in space. Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash: Андриян Григорьевич Николаев), (September 5, 1929–July 3, 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ...

A final "first" for Vostok 3 was Nikolayev's taking of colour movie footage of the Earth from orbit.

Crew

• Andrian Nikolayev

Backup Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash: Андриян Григорьевич Николаев), (September 5, 1929–July 3, 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. ...

• Valery F. Bykovsky

Valery Bykovsky Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Валерий Фёдорович Быковский; born 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. ...

Vostok programme
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The Vostok program (Восто́к, translated as East) was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth orbit for the first time. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1360x1024, 451 KB) Model of Vostok spacecraft photo taken and edited by de:Benutzer:HPH on Russia in Space exhibition (Airport of Frankfurt, Germany, 2002) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Crew None Mission Parameters Mass: 1,477 kg Perigee: 280 km Apogee: 675 km Inclination: 65. ... Crew None Mission Parameters Mass: 4,600 kg Perigee: 287 km Apogee: 324 km Inclination: 64. ... Crew None Mission Parameters Mass: 4,563 kg Perigee: 166 km Apogee: 232 km Inclination: 64. ... Crew None Mission Parameters Mass: 4,700 kg Perigee: 173 km Apogee: 239 km Inclination: 64. ... Crew None Mission Parameters Mass: 4,695 kg Perigee: 164 km Apogee: 230 km Inclination: 64. ... Vostok 1 was the first manned space mission. ... Gherman Titov Vostok 2 was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day in order to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. ... Vostok 4 was a mission in the Soviet space program. ... Like Vostoks 3 and 4, Vostok 5 and 6 were joint missions in the Soviet space program, and like the previous pair, came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link. ... A joint flight with Vostok 5, Vostok 6 carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. ...