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Encyclopedia > Vostok 5
Vostok 5
Mission Insignia
image:vostok5-6patch.png
Mission Statistics
Mission Name: Vostok 5
Call Sign: Ястреб (Yastreb - "Hawk")
Number of Crew Members: 1
Launch: June 14, 1963
11:58:58 UTC
Baikonur LC1
Landing: June 19, 1963
11:06 UTC
53°24′ N 68°37′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=53_24_N_68_37_E_)
Duration: 4 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes
Number of Orbits: 82

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. Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 patch File links The following pages link to this file: Vostok 5 Vostok 6 Categories: Pre-1973 Soviet Union images ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the worlds oldest and largest working space launch facility. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart, and together these missions were 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. ... The Vostok (Восток, translated as East) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Unions space program for human spaceflight. ... A joint flight with Vostok 5, Vostok 6 carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)  listen; tr. ...


Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky was originally intended to stay in orbit for eight days, but the mission details changed many times due to elevated levels of solar flare activity at the time and he was eventually ordered back after only five days. U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Валерий Фёдорович Быковский; born 2 August 1934, Moscow) was a cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. ...


A problem with the spacecraft's waste collection system is reported to have made conditions "unpleasant" in the capsule. The only other difficulty encountered was that, like on Vostoks 1 and 2, the re-entry module failed to separate cleanly from the service module when it was time for Bykovsky to come home. Flush toilet A toilet is a plumbing fixture devised for the disposal of bodily wastes, including urine, feces, menses and vomit. ... Vostok 1 was the first manned space mission. ... 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. ...


The re-entry capsule is now on display at the Tsiolkovsky Museum in Kaluga. Kaluga (Калу́га) is a city in central Russia 190km South-West from Moscow, administrative center of Kaluga Oblast. ...


Crew

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

Boris Volynov Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Борис Валентинович Волынов; born December 18, 1934 in Irkutsk) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. ...

Mission Parameters

  • Mass: 4720 kg
  • Perigee: 130 km
  • Apogee: 131 km
  • Inclination: 64.9°
  • Period: 87.1 minutes


Preceded by:
Vostok 4		 Vostok programme Followed by:
Vostok 6


Vostok 4 was a mission in the Soviet space program. ... 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. ... A joint flight with Vostok 5, Vostok 6 carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. ...


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Vostok 5 (144 words)
Like Vostoks 3 and 4, Vostok 5 and 6 were joint missions, and like the previous pair, came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link.
Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky was originally intended to stay in orbit for eight days, but the mission details changed many times due to elevated levels of solar flare activity at the time and he was eventually ordered back after only five days.
The only other difficulty encountered was that, like on Vostoks 1 and 2, the re-entry module failed to separate cleanly from the service module when it was time for Bykovsky to come home.
Vostok programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (233 words)
A series of prototype Vostoks, including at least five with animals and some with a test dummy aboard, were used to qualify the spacecraft for human flight.
Vostok 3 - August 11, 1962, and Vostok 4 - August 12, 1962.
Another seven Vostok flights were originally planned, going through to April of 1966, but these were cancelled and the components recycled into the Voskhod programme, which was intended more towards achieving Soviet "firsts" in space.
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