The Soviet Union's first human spaceflight program, which placed Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit of Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961, the first human spaceflight in history. Led by chief designer Sergei Korolev, the program flew six crewed missions between 1961 and 1963, including Vostok 6, which carried Valentina Tereshkova as the first woman in space, and demonstrated multi-day flight durations that exceeded the parallel American Project Mercury.
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Mission TypeCrewed low Earth orbit spaceflight program 1 End DateDate of the launch of Vostok 6, the program's final crewed flight. OutcomeSuccessful; six crewed missions flown, achieving the first human spaceflight and the first spaceflight by a woman, and proving multi-day orbital endurance ahead of the American Mercury and Gemini programs. 1 Mission Type
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It succeeded in placing the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin, in a single orbit in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
- Wikipedia: Vostok programme, mission list
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