Spacecraft

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok spacecraft used for test flights before the first human spaceflight. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as “East”) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The spacecraft was part of […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok spacecraft used for test flights before the first human spaceflight. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as “East”) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The spacecraft was part of […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 First Vostok spacecraft. The 1P variant was not designed to be recovered from orbit. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as “East”) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The spacecraft […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Uncrewed Vostok spacecraft launched on March 9, 1961. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as “East”) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The spacecraft was part of the Vostok programme, […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Uncrewed Vostok spacecraft launched on March 25, 1961. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as “East”) was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The spacecraft was part of the Vostok programme, […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 1 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 12 April 1961 06:07 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Yuri Gagarin. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 2 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 6 August 1961 06:00 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Gherman Titov. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 3 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 11 August 1962 08:24 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Andriyan Nikolayev. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 4 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 12 August 1962 08:02:33 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Pavel Popovich. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 5 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 14 June 1963 11:58:58 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Valery Bykovsky. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]

Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 6 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 16 June 1963 09:29:52 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Valentina Tereshkova. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]

Capability: SpaceShipTwo is carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glides back to Earth and performs a conventional runway landing. Maiden Flight: 2010-10-10 Flight Life: Short suborbital flights Crew Capacity: 8 VSS Enterprise […]

Capability: SpaceShipTwo is carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glides back to Earth and performs a conventional runway landing. Maiden Flight: 2010-10-10 Flight Life: Short suborbital flights Crew Capacity: 8 VSS Unity, […]

Capability: Experimental aircraft used for Aircraft and Spacecraft design Maiden Flight: 1959-06-08 Flight Life: ~10 minute flights Crew Capacity: 1 First X-15 experimental rocket plane. History The North American X-15 currently holds the record for the highest speed in a manned, powered aircraft. The three variants of the X-15 flew nearly 200 times, with […]

Capability: Experimental aircraft used for Aircraft and Spacecraft design Maiden Flight: 1959-06-08 Flight Life: ~10 minute flights Crew Capacity: 1 Second X-15 experimental rocket plane. History The North American X-15 currently holds the record for the highest speed in a manned, powered aircraft. The three variants of the X-15 flew nearly 200 times, with […]