Everyone is pay tribute to spaceman Yuri Gagarin today , and with good reason : he was thefirst humankind to travel into distance . But let ’s not forget the craftiness that got him there , the Vostok 3KA .
The Vostok was built in 1960 , and under the name Vostok 1 KB , flew in six unmanned test missions prior to 1961 . resemble some form of metal insect , the Vostok was just about 14.5 - feet - grandiloquent and 7.5 - feet - astray . The Vostok 3KA could contain a single cosmonaut , and was built to come through 10 days in space .
The development of the Vostok 3KA was two - plication : of couse , it was intended to be a manned spacecraft . But it was also germinate as a camera platform for catching and was the independent reason it got support from the communistic party . After all , the Cold War was in full swing , and the U.S. and Russia were up each others asses .
Gagarin ’s trip was , of course , secret , and story of the flight did n’t surface for quite some time after the fact . But after the initial trip on this daylight in 1961 , the Vostok 3KA fly in seven more military mission , 5 of which were man . For it ’s terminal flight , which was part of the Vostok 6 mission , the 3KA flew cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova up into orbit to test the effect of space on the female consistence .
The Vostok 3KA may have lacked the prospicient lifespan of the Soyuz , and the glamour of the Apollo commission , but it deem the very important distinction of being the first trade to carry serviceman into space . [ BraeunigandAstronautixviaWikipedia ]
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