Vostok

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Vostok (Russian: Восток, lit. 'East') was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and was designed for the human spaceflight programme. This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) and the first crewed spacecraft (Vostok) in human history.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Vostok (rocket family)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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