[DOC] [TLE] Soviet space program - Wikipedia [PAR] ... on display at the All-Soviet Exhibition Centre were the first reliable means to 
transport objects into Earth orbit. The Soviet space program comprised the 
rocketry and space exploration programs conducted .... The Soviets were beaten 
in sending the first manned flight around the Moon in 1968 by Apollo 8, but 
Mishin... [DOC] [TLE] Vostok 1 - Wikipedia [PAR] Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first manned 
spaceflight in ... The Soviet Union secretly pursued the Vostok programme in 
competition with .... 20 [code name for Korolyov], and the flight is proceeding 
normally. ... UT Vostok 1 crossed the equator at about 170 West in a southeast 
direction,... [DOC] [TLE] Project Mercury - Wikipedia [PAR] Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, 
running from ... Soviet Gherman Titov followed with a day-long orbital flight in 
August, 1961. ... docking maneuvers essential for manned lunar landings in the 
subsequent Apollo program announced a few weeks after the first manned 
Mercury flight. [DOC] [TLE] Lost Cosmonauts - Wikipedia [PAR] Lost Cosmonauts, or Phantom Cosmonauts, is a conspiracy theory alleging that 
Soviet ... Three more names of alleged cosmonauts claimed to have perished 
under ... No other evidence of Soviet sub-orbital manned flights ever came to light
. ... theory that the Soviet space program covered up cosmonaut deaths in the 
1960s. [DOC] [TLE] The Soviet/Russian Manned Space Program The Soviet/Russian T ... [PAR] that the Soviets put a man in space first, and that first flight was longer than either 
of the first two ... space program, at the direction of Soviet Premier Nikita 
Khrushchev. ... Voskhod Project (which means dawn or sunrise) came after 
the Vostok Project. ... design bureau began work on the so-called N-1 rocket in 
1962. [DOC] [TLE] The Space Race - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] By the mid-1950s, the U.S.-Soviet Cold War had worked its way into the fabric of 
... Eisenhower also created two national security-oriented space programs that ... 
than Vostok; they tested the craft with chimpanzees, and held a final test flight in 
... December 1968 saw the launch of Apollo 8, the first manned space mission to
... [DOC] [TLE] Vostok Wins the First Lap - NASA History Homepage [PAR] The world's first space ship Vostok with a man on board, has been launched on 
April 12 ... wished to believe that Gagarin's flight in Vostok I (meaning East) had 
not occurred. ... disappointed that the name Gagarin would "go down in the 
history books. ... The Soviets have pretty much rifled their program, if I may use 
the word,... [DOC] [TLE] Project Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis - NASA History Homepage [PAR] Kennedy as president had little direct interest in the U.S. space program. ... and 
for the definition of Project Apollo as the premier civil space effort of the nation. .... 
the first human in space with a one- orbit mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. 
.... the Soviet Union, and possibly our allies concerning the direction in which... [DOC] [TLE] Why Yuri Gagarin Remains the First Man in Space, Even Though He ... [PAR] Apr 12, 2010 ... Every year as the anniversary of the first human spaceflight approaches, ... Even 
after Soviet -made models of the Vostok spacecraft made it clear that ... This Is My 
Display Name  1 month ago ... of USA NASA Program was a former NAZI man 
Werner Won Braun. ..... I mean, all of you are forgetting the facts! [DOC] [TLE] Once around the Moon: The Soviet circumlunar race - WordPress.com [PAR] Nov 27, 2015 ... While stopping short of the creation of a Soviet space agency, it did ... together 
their first plan for a manned circumlunar flight  Vostok-7/IL. ... Interestingly in this 
plan the Cosmonauts would be facing away from the direction of travel so .... The 
name Zond (meaning 'probe' in Russian) had previously been... [DOC] [TLE] Space Program - Oxford Reference [PAR] Both the Age of Discovery and the space age required means of conveyance. ...

Question: The name of Vostok, the Soviets' first manned space flight program, means this direction
Answer: east