Vostok 1

Vostok I was a Soviet Vostok Program spacecraft that served with the Soviet Space Agency in the mid-20th century.

In 1961, Vostok I carried the first human in space, the Russian Yuri Gagarine. It made a single revolution around the earth. It's succeful mission kept the U.S.S.R. in the lead of the "space race". During it's flight it cinducted radio and television brodcast with Earth. The capsule posses the ressources to sustain 12 day in orbit of the planet. Tought the actual flight lasted only 108 minutes.