First manned space flight | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-06

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1


00:00:55 1 Background
00:02:06 2 Crew
00:03:57 3 Medical exam
00:04:46 4 Preparations
00:06:00 4.1 Automatic control
00:06:47 4.2 April 11, 1961
00:08:53 5 Mission
00:11:15 5.1 Launch
00:14:02 5.2 Time in orbit
00:21:16 6 Reentry and landing
00:25:22 7 Reactions and legacy
00:25:32 7.1 Soviet reaction
00:28:47 7.2 American reaction
00:30:45 7.3 Other world reactions
00:32:06 7.4 World record
00:33:46 7.5 Legacy
00:36:20 8 See also



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Vostok 1 (Russian: Восто́к, East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first manned spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space.
The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at 169 kilometers (91 nautical miles) at its lowest point. The flight took 108 minutes from launch to landing. Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at 7 km (23,000 ft) altitude.