On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...
In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union stunned the world by launching two Vostok spacecraft into orbit within a day, flying side by side and shattering spaceflight records in the process. This video ...