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Manned Spaceflight Begins BY: Sarah Hermsen

Manned Spaceflight Begins BY: Sarah Hermsen. Moriah Epps. What’s it all about?. It’s all about the firsts of putting man in space. Russian Firsts. Vostok (Russian for East) first manned spaceflight program. Yuri Gagarin chosen as the first cosmonaut in space .

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Manned Spaceflight Begins BY: Sarah Hermsen

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  1. Manned Spaceflight Begins BY: Sarah Hermsen Moriah Epps

  2. What’s it all about? It’s all about the firsts of putting man in space.

  3. Russian Firsts • Vostok (Russian for East) first manned spaceflight program. • Yuri Gagarin chosen as the first cosmonaut in space. • April 12, 1961 Vostok 1 was launched. • Flight only lasted 108 minutes (reached an apogee of 203 miles and a perigee of 112 miles) • Four months later Vostok 2 launched with Gherman Titov, it stayed in orbit for 25hr. and 18min. • Vostok 3 and 4 launched from the same pad one day apart in August of 1962,marking the first simultaneous flight of two manned spacecraft.

  4. Russian firsts cont. • The orbits of Vostok 3 and 4 were so accurate that the vessels came within 4 miles of each other. • The radio conversations between Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich marked the first ship to ship communications. • Valentina Tereshkova was the first civilian and woman in space.

  5. To infinity and beyond • In 1962 the Soviets began developing their own lunar landing project called Soyuz. • This spacecraft was called Voskhod. • Voskhod launched on Oct. 12, 1964. • There were 3 cosmonauts in the craft Vladimir Komarov, Boris Yegorov, and Konstantin Feoktistov; marking the first spaceflight to carry more than one human into space. • Voskhod 2 launched March 18, 1865 with Aleksei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev. • Leonov became the first human to ever attempt an EVA (extravehicular activity).

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